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labourer

British

/ ˈleɪbərə /

noun

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

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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

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

"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

But with opportunities scarce back home at the end of his three years, finding a welding job as an undocumented labourer proved much simpler.

From Barron's ● Jan. 7, 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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