Wiktionary
alt. A laborer who is is hired and paid one day at a time, with no promise that more work will be available in the future. n. A laborer who is is hired and paid one day at a time, with no promise that more work will be available in the future.
WordNet
n. a laborer who works by the day; for daily wages [syn: day labourer]
Usage examples of "day laborer".
But ragged shapes crowded this quarter with turmoil: milling and yelling children, women overburdened with jugs and baskets, men plying their trades, day laborer, muledriver, carter, scavenger, artisan, butcher, tanner, priest, minstrel, vendor chanting or chaffering about his pitiful wares.
He told Corvo the rest of his theory: that Fernal Gutierrez-Llosa was a day laborer who either hired on as a mule and didn't make the grade or had worked at the bug breeding plant and seen something he should not have seen or done something he should not have done.
We actually want to be as fair to you as to the lowest day laborer.
The difference between the wages of a calker and that of a common day laborer, was an hundred per cent in favor of the former.
Her arrival jarred Kellen further out of his drifting mood of acceptance, for she looked nothing like any female he had ever seen before in his life, dressed as she was in garments that no City-dweller, even the most desperate day laborer, would have contemplated wearing for even a moment.
Just then, a congressman and a fellow in the ragged clothes of a day laborer dragged Konrad de Buys up to him.
Such a move was made on the behalf of a full-time employee, a subcitizen, not for a day laborer out of the Dipple.