laborer
[ley-ber-er]
noun
a person engaged in work that requires bodily strength rather than skill or training: a laborer in the field.
any worker.
Origin of laborer
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Examples from the Web for laborer
Contemporary Examples of laborer
Shadman started as a laborer, but within a year became an interpreter because he could speak English.
Anschutz, a non-drinker, was a 57-year-old laborer at a local moving company.
Historical Examples of laborer
This is but the necessary consequence of all labor which does not benefit the laborer.
The Works of Whittier, Volume VII (of VII)John Greenleaf Whittier
There is little call for any great skill on the part of the laborer.
The Negro FarmerCarl Kelsey
It is not contended, however, that every laborer actually does this.
Rural Life and the Rural SchoolJoseph Kennedy
The next morning he felt like a laborer whose factory has closed.
In a Little TownRupert Hughes
Tramped over Brazil as a day laborer, and through the West Indies.
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