Synonyms of laborers

laborers

noun

plural of laborer

as in workers

a person who does very hard or dull work

they could only find work as laborers unloading cargo ships

Synonyms & Similar Words

• workers
• slaves
• toilers
• peons
• foot soldiers
• grubs
• pluggers
• grubbers
• grunts
• drudges
• drones
• sloggers
• dogsbodies
• drudgers
• serfs
• workhorses

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• shirkers
• idlers
• loafers
• slugs
• sluggards
• goldbricks
• lazybones
• slouches

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of laborers

And the web of contractors, local inspectors, developers, laborers, chipmakers and site managers adds cost, complexity, risk – and delays. — David Goldman, CNN Money, 6 Aug. 2026

Trump also got into trouble for hiring more than two hundred undocumented Polish laborers to handle the demolition. — Kai Bird, New Yorker, 3 Aug. 2026

Both are built by laborers, but opposing a pipeline amounts to stopping the creation of a few thousand jobs. — David Weigel, semafor.com, 31 July 2026

Church leaders were deeply troubled by a new, unrestrained form of capitalism that left laborers with few options other than working on mechanized assembly lines, under harsh terms set by corporate managers. — Walter Scheirer, The Conversation, 31 July 2026

Most of the individual names and stories of these laborers have since been lost. — Sacbee.com, 30 July 2026

Part of the promise of pro-worker AI is to create new tasks, which in many cases will demand that laborers learn new skills. — Daron Acemoglu, The Atlantic, 28 July 2026

The Department of Labor reports that in the third quarter of 2023, Generation Z outnumbered baby boomers in the workforce for the first time, and this younger generation of laborers has a different relationship with employment. — Amanda Turcotte, Forbes.com, 28 July 2026

Our most critical infrastructure was raised over generations — designed and engineered, then constructed by carpenters, masons, laborers, ironworkers, operators, teamsters, pipefitters, welders, and electricians. — Brendan Bechtel, Fortune, 25 July 2026