as in worker
a person who does very hard or dull work
they could only find work as laborers unloading cargo ships
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Recent Examples of laborer
The operation, according the attorney's office, involved the construction of over 1,100 greenhouses and employed both local Navajo workers and Chinese foreign laborers, some of whom were undocumented immigrants, to grow, cultivate and transport marijuana out of New Mexico.
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Arlyssa D. Becenti, AZCentral.com, 24 Sep. 2025
Christopher Columbus’s son, Diego Colón, Hispaniola’s governor, granted him an encomienda, or consignment of Indian laborers, on the north coast of the island in the Cibao Valley.
—Greg Grandin
september 23, Literary Hub, 23 Sep. 2025
The figure in Nepal is even higher — 20% — which observers say has pushed young people to leave the country in droves to find jobs in neighboring India as well as in other regions such as the Middle East, where they’re often employed as laborers.
—Mithil Aggarwal, NBC news, 15 Sep. 2025
The three of them crammed into a single room in a small blue house full of Spanish-speaking laborers.
—ProPublica, 13 Sep. 2025
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Arlyssa D. Becenti, AZCentral.com, 24 Sep. 2025
Christopher Columbus’s son, Diego Colón, Hispaniola’s governor, granted him an encomienda, or consignment of Indian laborers, on the north coast of the island in the Cibao Valley.
—Greg Grandin
september 23, Literary Hub, 23 Sep. 2025
The figure in Nepal is even higher — 20% — which observers say has pushed young people to leave the country in droves to find jobs in neighboring India as well as in other regions such as the Middle East, where they’re often employed as laborers.
—Mithil Aggarwal, NBC news, 15 Sep. 2025
The three of them crammed into a single room in a small blue house full of Spanish-speaking laborers.
—ProPublica, 13 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for laborer
Noun
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Other employees, including those in the military and air traffic control workers, must work without compensation until a budget deal is reached.—
Natalie Neysa Alund,
USA Today,
7 Oct. 2025
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At 18, her co-worker Taylor Robinson had yet to vote.—
Eric Adler,
Kansas City Star,
7 Oct. 2025
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Over the centuries, Muslim traders built mosques and schools in sedate Tamale, which was more inland and distant from the direct links of the transatlantic slave and colonial trade.—
Edna Bonhomme,
Artforum,
1 Oct. 2025
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Beckett’s symbols of master and slave — the whip, the rope, the servant weighed down with baggage — are either mimed or cut and in doing so lose its real horror.—
Frank Rizzo,
Variety,
29 Sep. 2025
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“Laborer.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/laborer. Accessed 9 Oct. 2025.
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