PLUGGERS Synonyms: 25 Similar and Opposite Words

pluggers

noun

plural of plugger

as in laborers

a person who does very hard or dull work the quiet pluggers are the ones who really keep this company going

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Recent Examples of pluggers Unfortunately for Jorgensen, just about every Big Ten roster has a post player like Fielder — long, quick pluggers with a hard elbow in your ribs and a soft touch at the rim. — Sean Keeler, Denver Post, 8 Mar. 2026

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Many worked as laborers in building projects in an era of Western colonial rule across much of Asia.

— ABC News, ABC News, 25 Aug. 2026
Built in 1610 by Spanish and Indigenous laborers, the church was destroyed in the 1680 Pueblo Revolt that drove Spanish colonizers out of the region for 12 years.

— Dan Fellner, AZCentral.com, 23 Aug. 2026

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At the same time, many of these tech companies, like Microsoft and IBM, have been providing accessible professional certificate programs to workers across the globe in hopes of closing the skills gap.

— Charlotte Hu, Time, 26 Aug. 2026
Chesnot | Getty Images Entertainment | Getty Images The platform at one point served more than 500,000 workers, also referred to as turkers, according to Amazon.

— Annie Palmer, CNBC, 26 Aug. 2026

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