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labourer

British

/ ˈleɪbərə /

noun

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

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But as the first in a family of labourers and shopkeepers to go to university, she could feel her future slipping away.

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Portinari, who often painted rural workers and labourers, is one of the most significant Brazilian Modernist artists.

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Trained labourers are now searching for some 17,000 artefacts that were kept at the site.

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

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Before the conflict, Ms Radha was a homemaker and her husband worked as a labourer.

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