The Collaborative International Dictionary
Day-laborer \Day"-la`bor*er\, n.
One who works by the day; -- usually applied to a farm
laborer, or to a workman who does not work at any particular
trade.
--Goldsmith.
Usage examples of "day-laborer".
The Convention, on its side, orders[96] the release, "provisionally, of all ploughmen, day-laborers, reapers, and professional artisans and brewers, in the country and in the market towns and communes, the population of which is not over twelve hundred inhabitants, and who are confined as 'suspects.
I paid ten dollars a week for a room with an unobstructed view of the air shaft, and cooking privileges I shared with two spinster schoolteachers, three college students, two Chinese exchange students and a constantly drunken Puerto Rican day-laborer.
Although he looked hot, cross, and tired, more like a day-laborer than a gentleman plantation owner whose ancestors had always “.
She did know it, and later on she would test the idea, but for now the white-collar guys on the top floor - the ones with all the good views - had once again wrested control away from the day-laborers and shop stewards who ran the machinery.
The lower forms of human life: clerks, bus drivers, day-laborers, typists, janitors, tailors, bakers, turret lathe operators, shipping clerks, baseball players, radio announcers, garage mechanics, policemen, necktie peddlers, ice cream vendors, door-to-door salesmen, bill collectors, receptionists, welders, carpenters, construction laborers, farmers, politicians, merchants -- the men and women whose very existence terrified the Null-O's to their core.
The lower forms of human life: clerks, bus drivers, day-laborers, typists, janitors, tailors, bakers, turret lathe operators, shipping clerks, baseball players, radio announcers, garage mechanics, policemen, necktie peddlers, ice cream vendors, door-to-door salesmen, bill collectors, receptionists, welders, carpenters, construction laborers, farmers, politi.