laborer
a person engaged in work that requires bodily strength rather than skill or training: a laborer in the field.
any worker.
Origin of laborer
1Other words from laborer
- un·der·la·bor·er, noun
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How to use laborer in a sentence
All in all, approximately 13,000 Allied POWs and 90,000 Asian laborers perished while working on the railway.
Many were skilled artisans, but some were compelled into service as forced prison laborers.
Superman Is Jewish: The Hebrew Roots of America's Greatest Superhero | Rich Goldstein | August 16, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTAbove them hang portraits of the original clandestine laborers.
Sayyed, who never went to school, was one of the laborers hired by organized gangs to loot.
The organization counts scientists, journalists, lawyers, laborers, and businessmen among its members and supporters.
More laborers are needed for the Jesuit missions, as well as for those conducted by the friars.
The generall mayne body of the planters are divided into Officers, Laborers, Farmors.
Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce | E. R. Billings.Only the laborers on the plantations smoke small clay pipes.
Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce | E. R. Billings.We no longer live in an age when down-trodden laborers meet by candlelight with the ban of the law upon their meeting.
The Unsolved Riddle of Social Justice | Stephen LeacockSo congress has excluded not only diseased, criminal, pauper and anarchist immigrants, but also contract and Chinese laborers.
Putnam's Handy Law Book for the Layman | Albert Sidney Bolles
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