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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
laborer
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ VERB
work
▪ Between 300,000 and 800,000 children like Damaris are working as hired laborers in commercial U.S. agriculture today.
▪ The biggest complaints here come from women who work as machinists, laborers, and handlers.
▪ Men may work periodically as day laborers on others' fields, as carpenters, or masons.
▪ Few had any special skills; they worked as casual laborers, eking out a marginal existence, often reduced to begging.
▪ That afternoon he set out walking to Harrisburg, where his father was working as a laborer on a new turnpike.
▪ Her father, Robert Hand, was an unsuccessful artist and musician who worked as a laborer.
▪ When he was older, Taylor did serve an apprenticeship and did work as a laborer and machinist.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ a farm laborer
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Arturo is a laborer who works for $ 4 an hour, about six hours a day.
▪ Few had any special skills; they worked as casual laborers, eking out a marginal existence, often reduced to begging.
▪ Hearst had to pay 65 laborers for nine months to dismantle the monastery, crate it up and move it.
▪ Men may work periodically as day laborers on others' fields, as carpenters, or masons.
▪ Some are technicians, some are artists, some are craftsmen, and some are just laborers.
▪ The biggest complaints here come from women who work as machinists, laborers, and handlers.
▪ They also want Tokyo to aid not only the original laborers but their offspring as well.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Laborer

Laborer \La"bor*er\, n. [Written also labourer.] One who labors in a toilsome occupation; a person who does work that requires strength rather than skill, as distinguished from that of an artisan.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
laborer

mid-14c., "manual worker," especially an unskilled one, agent noun from labor (v.). Meaning "member of the working class, member of the lowest social rank" is from c.1400.

Wiktionary
laborer

alt. One who uses body strength instead of intellectual power to earn a wage, usually hourly. n. One who uses body strength instead of intellectual power to earn a wage, usually hourly.

WordNet
laborer

n. someone who works with their hands; someone engaged in manual labor [syn: manual laborer, labourer, jack]

Wikipedia
Laborer

A laborer or labourer—see variation in English spelling—is a person (usually a male) who works in one of the construction trades, traditionally considered unskilled manual labor, as opposed to skilled labor. Laborers are also employed outside of the construction industry, in fields such as road paving, shoveling snow, digging graves, chain gangs, and picking up leaves. In the division of labor, laborers have all blasting, hand tools, power tools, air tools, and small heavy equipment, and act as assistants to other trades, e.g., operators or cement masons. The 1st century BC engineer Vitruvius writes in detail about laborer practices at that time. In his experience a good crew of laborers is just as valuable as any other aspect of construction. Other than the addition of pneumatics, laborer practices have changed little. With the advent of advanced technology and its introduction into the construction field, the laborers have been quick to include much of this technology as being laborers work.

Usage examples of "laborer".

The type of theology and method of instruction used by some of the earliest laborers in this field left something to be desired in point of adaptedness to the savage mind.

Betraying a former opulence, the estate is a confusion of subdivided rooms parceled out to admass occupation of impoverished laborers.

At last the builder arrived: Bocca, Mouth, an illiterate laborer on the roads of Tuscany in his youth, who had had the extra energy and ambition to learn how to draw maps, to boss road crews, and finally to contract for building roads between farm villages.

From time to time, in mention of the pay of men-at-arms, the wages of laborers, the price of a horse or a plow, the living expenses of a bourgeois family, the amounts of hearth taxes and sales taxes, I have tried to relate monetary figures to actual values.

Abdel and Jaheira circled around quickly and were at the other end of the alley before the doppelganger emerged, this time in the form of a burly laborer in mud-stained coveralls.

Among the curious who had flocked together were many embalmers, laborers, and humble folk, who lived in the Necropolis.

Donne describes an athletic laborer of twenty-five who received a wound from a rifle-ball penetrating the cranial parietes immediately in the posterior superior angle of the parietal bone, and a few lines from the lambdoid suture.

It had been even more visible late in the afternoon, when it had loomed over the brows of nearby low hills like an early rising Lucifer and confronted and confounded a number of isolated farm laborers and one latifundia chairman.

Paying the small copper quadrans, Marcus entered the noisy changing room, ignoring the surprised glances of laborers.

Jiro and Shoji watched from the deck as groups of Chinese coolies, along with other groups of American laborers, unloaded the ship.

His father believed knowledge would save Li Sung from staying a common laborer and made him study every book he could get his hands on from the time he was a small child.

II, in style and arrangement, and may accommodate not only the farm laborer or gardener, but will serve for a small farmer himself, or a village mechanic.

But owing to the stupid money system, which these laborers them selves help to keep in force, the results of their combined efforts were either usurped by an unproductive class fortunate enough to be born rich, or those shrewd enough to accumulate money, such as trust managers, bankers, real estate speculators, stock jobbers, and brokers, gamblers, burglars, money loan swindlers, high salaried clergymen, etc.

The farmer, housewife, banker, merchant and laborer seem to be equally prone to the affliction and all who suffer have a great number of days rendered uncomfortable and unhappy by the presence of this most unpleasant affection.

Forty-five minutes later, another laborer saw her with apparently the same man on Berner Street.