Definition of laborer
:one that labors;
specifically
:a person who does unskilled physical work for wages
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He has been working as a laborer on a construction project.
having no real skills, the men could only find work as laborers unloading cargo ships
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Bratt’s film highlights Huerta’s role in the campaign to outlaw DDT—a popular pesticide which posed serious health risks to agricultural laborers—as well as the national boycott of California table grapes, Gallo-brand wine and lettuce.
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Milledge, a 52-year-old laborer with Charlotte’s yard-waste division, worked from 6:30 a.m. to 8:40 p.m. on July 11, union leaders say.
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It is understood that many locals were essentially conscripted into ISIS, as soldiers or laborers.
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The prevailing wage law sets pay scales, often driven by union wages, for laborers on public works projects.
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Cynics might suggest that a shrinking Germany wants young, cheap manual laborers.
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Highland resident Gene Hermann was living in Robertsdale at the time, and was employed as a laborer at the refinery.
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At the Gallery at Market East, laborers are breaking up loads of heavy material that might have been moved using equipment operated by Local 542 members.
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The measure would require new hires to pay more into the municipal workers and laborers retirement funds and also increase the amount taxpayers contribute to those plans.
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First Known Use of laborer
14th century
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