labourer
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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A man on a motorcycle comes by wanting to hire one labourer to carry bricks.
From BBC ● May 18, 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
The college purchased the two first-edition volumes in 1838 for £48, equivalent to the annual wages of a skilled labourer at the time.
From BBC ● May 1, 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
Gandhi saw indenture for what it was: “almost as bad as slavery. Like the slave the indentured labourer was the property of his master.”
From "Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science" by Marc Aronson
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