farmworker

noun

farm·​work·​er ˈfärm-ˌwər-kər 

: farmhand sense 1

farmwork

ˈfärm-ˌwərk 

noun

Examples of farmworker in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Many of them had saved money while toiling as farmworkers, cooks, custodians and construction workers. — Ruben Vives, Los Angeles Times, 29 Aug. 2026

The original list of suggestions included naming the space after labor icon Dolores Huerta, Filipino farmworker leaders, local music legends Los Tigres del Norte, or Blanca Alvarado, San Jose’s first Latina councilmember. — Sal Pizarro, Mercury News, 25 Aug. 2026

More than 30 years later, Pérez has become a leading advocate for California’s immigrant, farmworker and low-income communities. — Nicole Buss, Sacbee.com, 21 Aug. 2026

It’s presented as an impressionistic historical montage, of Black farmworkers and the land, with clips of Black history that include modern suburbs, and a woman—Z herself—who gazes out of a door into a sere expanse of land bordered by low mountains. — Richard Brody, New Yorker, 19 Aug. 2026

Word History

First Known Use

1843, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for farmworker

• caseworker
• coworker
• woodworker
• worker