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farmworker

noun

farm·​work·​er ˈfärm-ˌwər-kər How to pronounce farmworker (audio)
farmwork noun

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According to the National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), some professions that carry elevated risks of developing COPD because of on-the-job exposures to harmful substances include: auto workers, housecleaners and farmworkers. Helen Carefoot, Flow Space, 20 Nov. 2025 Wood had spent more than two decades on death row for the 2002 murder of Ronnie Wipf, a 19-year-old migrant farmworker from a Hutterite community in Montana. Christina Coulter, PEOPLE, 15 Nov. 2025 Tremane Wood, 46, was sentenced to death for stabbing and killing 19-year-old farmworker Ronnie Wipf on New Year’s Day in 2002 during a robbery in Oklahoma City. Alexandra Koch, FOXNews.com, 13 Nov. 2025 Mendoza, raised in a farmworker family in Pinal County, Arizona, enlisted in the Navy at 17 before serving nearly two decades in the U.S. Marine Corps with deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan. Martha McHardy, MSNBC Newsweek, 13 Nov. 2025 See All Example Sentences for farmworker

Word History

First Known Use

1843, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of farmworker was in 1843

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“Farmworker.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/farmworker. Accessed 29 Nov. 2025.

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