labourer

British

/ ˈleɪbərə /

noun

a person engaged in physical work, esp of an unskilled kind

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"He was a labourer at the hydropower plant, but I can't find his name, and the authorities are not saying anything."

From Barron's ● Aug. 29, 2026

Kusman was hired as a labourer on the Cavustepe excavations after his military service in the 1960s and there encountered his first stele.

From Barron's ● Aug. 10, 2026

With his sights on sunny Australia, he spent the next seven months saving about £11,000 by working as a ground work labourer.

From BBC ● May 17, 2026

She had been working as a daily wage labourer and returned to her maternal home after the deaths of her husband and son, he said.

From BBC ● Apr. 29, 2026

Only neither the villein nor the farm labourer starved, when the master was a man like Sir Ector.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White

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