day laborer
an unskilled worker paid by the day.
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How to use day laborer in a sentence
The day laborers who win a First Amendment lawsuit defending their right to seek work are defending the Constitution for all.
It's Time for a New Progressive Era, With Informal Workers at the Center | Sally Roever | November 25, 2021 | TimeThe piece focuses on Palm Beach County, “home to old-monied millionaires but also some of the poorest day laborers and farm workers in America.”
‘60 Minutes’ embraces innuendo in Ron DeSantis story | Erik Wemple | April 9, 2021 | Washington PostTwo-and-twenty years ago, Sandy McGregor worked as a day-laborer in a shipyard, at three and sixpence per day.
A Changed Heart | May Agnes FlemingI'm nothing but an ordinary day-laborer, a plain Mick, a sort of a Wop, obeying orders.
West Wind Drift | George Barr McCutcheonHe is at most times a day-laborer, slouchy in his bearing and slovenly in his dress.
Frontier Folk | George Booth
His was a finer nature than theirs; he was a gentleman, thank God, and no day-laborer.
Under Handicap | Jackson GregoryPerhaps he may be even worse; a common day-laborer of the parish.
The Home in the Valley | Emilie F. Carln
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