labourer

British

/ ˈleɪbərə /

noun

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

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"Me, I won't go and vote because it's always the same ones who are there" in power, said 27-year-old labourer Guelord Mienagata.

From Barron's • Mar. 14, 2026

According to Raanan's office, the volume was found in Gaza by a Palestinian labourer who worked in Israel before the war.

From Barron's • Nov. 28, 2025

George was a labourer and enlisted early, in September 1914.

From BBC • Nov. 10, 2025

"At least the water is clean and so is the riverbank," said daily wage labourer Sanjay Prasad.

From Barron's • Oct. 27, 2025

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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