labourer
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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"Farming only leads to financial losses. I'd rather work as a day labourer and earn 100 to 200 baht a day just to get by. Expenses don't go down, but income keeps falling."
From BBC ● Apr. 30, 2026
"When petrol goes up, everything becomes more expensive," said Waqar Saleem, a day labourer at an Islamabad shoe store.
From Barron's ● Apr. 21, 2026
"Rising from the life of a young labourer, you have demonstrated through your own journey that democracy is the most powerful instrument for social and economic development," Lee said in a statement.
From Barron's ● Feb. 23, 2026
In the mid-1990s, Wright had been working as a labourer in Felixstowe, close to where his father and stepmother lived.
From BBC ● Feb. 2, 2026
Toward the end of 1966 my father was temporarily laid off his job as a menial labourer for a white firm in Germiston, a white city an hour’s bus ride southeast of Johannesburg.
From "Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography" by Mark Mathabane
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