laborer

noun

la·bor·er ˈlā-bər-ər

: one that labors

specifically : a person who does unskilled physical work for wages

Example Sentences

He has been working as a laborer on a construction project. they could only find work as laborers unloading cargo ships

Recent Examples on the Web Her story inspired a Netflix original movie, Self Made, that showed her transformation from a farm laborer and laundress into one of the twentieth century’s most successful women entrepreneurs.

Erica R. Williams, Essence, 24 Aug. 2022 Augie) Merasty, laborer, taxi driver, security guard, boxer, trapper, hunter, fisherman, town drunk, visual artist and memoirist has some answers to these questions.

Time, 15 Sep. 2022 My grandfather went into hiding in the Austrian countryside posing as a farm laborer.

New York Times, 18 July 2022 Aburto, a skilled laborer, was in New Orleans after Katrina in 2005, Baton Rouge after Louisiana’s floods in 2016, Panama City Beach after Michael in 2018, and Lake Charles after Laura in 2020.

Ciara Nugent, Time, 5 Oct. 2022 By the 1930s, a typical Chinese laborer worked in restaurants or cleaned laundry.

Alexa Gagosz, BostonGlobe.com, 2 Sep. 2022 Rehan Ali, a laborer in the country’s southern Sindh province, reported a similar ordeal.

Munir Ahmed, The Christian Science Monitor, 29 Aug. 2022 Pete Holmes stars in a comedy about a Detroit laborer who, after getting laid off, decides to follow his dream and become a pro bowler.

oregonlive, 27 Mar. 2022 And to hammer home the point, TikTok quoted a speed-watching laborer in his 20s in its slide deck.

Chris Stokel-walker, Wired, 21 Feb. 2022 See More

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