Examples of day laborer in a Sentence
They hire day laborers to pick the apples.
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Informal work takes many different forms globally and includes jobs such as street sellers, unregistered taxi drivers, domestic workers and day laborers.
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Meera Senthilingam, CNN, 7 Mar. 2025
Cleanup brigade The job center was established in 2000 as a place for day laborers to find work, and about 50 to 80 people pass through here each day to find manual labor jobs like building, house cleaning, and moving.
—Melanie Stetson Freeman, The Christian Science Monitor, 27 Feb. 2025
Some live on the fringes, sharing tiny rooms or riding bikes to day laborer pickup sites an hour away.
—Dionne Searcey, New York Times, 23 Feb. 2025
The hardware store parking lots, where day laborers search for work, also were largely empty.
—Chicago Tribune, 27 Jan. 2025
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Meera Senthilingam, CNN, 7 Mar. 2025
Cleanup brigade The job center was established in 2000 as a place for day laborers to find work, and about 50 to 80 people pass through here each day to find manual labor jobs like building, house cleaning, and moving.
—Melanie Stetson Freeman, The Christian Science Monitor, 27 Feb. 2025
Some live on the fringes, sharing tiny rooms or riding bikes to day laborer pickup sites an hour away.
—Dionne Searcey, New York Times, 23 Feb. 2025
The hardware store parking lots, where day laborers search for work, also were largely empty.
—Chicago Tribune, 27 Jan. 2025
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“Day laborer.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/day%20laborer. Accessed 1 May. 2025.
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