laborer
noun
la·bor·er
ˈlā-bər-ər 
: one that labors
specifically
: a person who does unskilled physical work for wages
Examples of laborer in a Sentence
He has been working as a laborer on a construction project.
they could only find work as laborers unloading cargo ships
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This hits nurses, teachers, drivers, and manual laborers hardest — people who work on their feet and whose bodies are their livelihoods.
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Phara Souffrant Forrest, New York Daily News, 4 Feb. 2026
Eva and Franco Mattes’s installation BEFNOED, 2014–, and Martin Le Chevallier’s video Clickworkers, 2017, for example, both foreground digital laborers’ perspectives, the global scale of crowdworking systems, and the repetitive, sometimes traumatizing, nature of the work.
—Farren Fei Yuan, Artforum, 1 Feb. 2026
Bugti said militants stormed the home of a Baloch laborer in Gwadar and killed five women and three children.
—Abdul Sattar, Los Angeles Times, 1 Feb. 2026
The series stars Billy Bob Thornton as Tommy Norris, a former laborer turned landman, who Larter's character, Angela Norris, was married to and is still very much connected to.
—Lori A Bashian, FOXNews.com, 1 Feb. 2026
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Phara Souffrant Forrest, New York Daily News, 4 Feb. 2026
Eva and Franco Mattes’s installation BEFNOED, 2014–, and Martin Le Chevallier’s video Clickworkers, 2017, for example, both foreground digital laborers’ perspectives, the global scale of crowdworking systems, and the repetitive, sometimes traumatizing, nature of the work.
—Farren Fei Yuan, Artforum, 1 Feb. 2026
Bugti said militants stormed the home of a Baloch laborer in Gwadar and killed five women and three children.
—Abdul Sattar, Los Angeles Times, 1 Feb. 2026
The series stars Billy Bob Thornton as Tommy Norris, a former laborer turned landman, who Larter's character, Angela Norris, was married to and is still very much connected to.
—Lori A Bashian, FOXNews.com, 1 Feb. 2026
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“Laborer.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/laborer. Accessed 7 Feb. 2026.
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laborer
noun
la·bor·er
ˈlā-bər-ər
: one that works
especially
: a person who does unskilled physical work for wages
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