gandy dancer

noun

Definition of gandy dancernext
as in laborer

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  1. laborer
  2. wage earner
  3. grub
  4. jobber
  5. hack
  6. assistant
  7. subordinate
  8. toiler
Noun
  • On July 1, a laborer was working in a trench about 10 feet deep in Livingston County, tying down an industrial storage tank, when the trench collapsed, trapping him.
    — Joseph Buczek, CBS News, 13 July 2026
  • His articles argued that migrant laborers were essential to California agriculture yet often faced hostility, poverty and unsafe living conditions.
    — James Ward, USA Today, 10 July 2026
Definition of laborer
Noun
  • Homes that were built to be attainable for a modest local wage earner were inflated into high-yield financial assets.
    — Jonathan Tower, Forbes.com, 4 June 2026
  • Sanchez and Stewart have disagreed on housing policy in the city, but both have said there is a critical need to balance the expansion of market-rate apartments with units that are within reach of below-average wage earners.
    — Don Stacom, Hartford Courant, 24 Apr. 2026
Definition of wage earner
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  • Milkweed also attracts ladybugs, which are natural predators of grubs.
    — SJ McShane, Martha Stewart, 11 July 2026
  • Those immigration conditions led to decades of stateside stereotypes of Italians as poor and violent and their diet ridiculed as peasant grub.
    — Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 10 July 2026
Definition of grub
Noun
  • The installers were jobbers who worked for one of the big-box retailers.
    — Tim Carter, Hartford Courant, 26 July 2025
  • Now the last-place Sox are the beleaguered jobbers taking a beating at their home park.
    — Peter Abraham, BostonGlobe.com, 6 Aug. 2023
Definition of jobber
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  • The prospect that attackers have had the means to bypass Secure Boot for more than a decade through what amounts to hack-by-numbers scripts isn’t much of an endorsement of the mechanism proposed by Microsoft in partnership with hardware makers.
    — Dan Goodin, ArsTechnica, 14 July 2026
  • Thickening mist, root volumizer, dry shampoo, and texturizing spray all pair seamlessly with the brand's iconic root touchup products for the ultimate hack in keeping your hair looking thick, full and flawless between salon visits.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 14 July 2026
Definition of hack
Noun
  • That’s according to the European Commission, which is now cracking down on what that means for AI assistants.
    — Lisa Eadicicco, CNN Money, 19 July 2026
  • The video assistant referee, on the whole, was judged to have been a success.
    — Chris Marshall-Bell, New York Times, 19 July 2026
Definition of assistant
Noun
  • Mayor Dean Trantalis, Commissioner Steven Glassman and Commissioner John Herbst took issue with her leadership, accusing her of being dismissive to subordinates and ruffling too many feathers.
    — Amanda Rosa, Miami Herald, 3 July 2026
  • Put simply, the theory says the president should be able to issue orders to subordinates and to fire them at will.
    — Graham G. Dodds, The Conversation, 30 June 2026
Definition of subordinate
Noun
  • Yet the story of the toiler turned tycoon persisted.
    — Jennifer Wilson, New Yorker, 4 May 2026
Definition of toiler
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