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

In the shrimp ponds, these landless laborers earn only a few dollars a day, with no contracts or protections. — Zakir Hossain Chowdhury, The Dial, 7 July 2026

Duties while at the firehouse included speaking with laborers and subcontractors, ordering supplies and discussions with other Good Neighbor Investors members, Mora recalled. — Sacbee.com, 7 July 2026

Construction laborers rank third, with automation pegged at over $285,000 a year versus a $47,100 wage, roughly six times the cost of just hiring a good old-fashioned meatbag human being. — John Koetsier, Forbes.com, 7 July 2026

At the center sits a giant mound of dirty work clothes, and hidden speakers play a nonstop whisper of the laborers’ names. — Jeff Chu, Travel + Leisure, 6 July 2026

Irish and Scottish laborers moved to the West to work on railroads, while Mexican vaqueros herded cattle on the open range. — Ted Olson, The Conversation, 2 July 2026

He is accused of not checking work authorizations before hiring laborers, according to the Post. — Irene Wright, USA Today, 26 June 2026

Israel soon barred nearly two hundred thousand Palestinian laborers from its workforce. — Nirit Peled, New Yorker, 26 June 2026

The route also brought artisans, laborers and slaves to the Spanish colony. — Daniel Hernandez, Los Angeles Times, 24 June 2026