as in worker
a person who does very hard or dull work
they could only find work as laborers unloading cargo ships
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Recent Examples of laborer
Tens of thousands of laborers from Jamaica, Antigua, Barbados, St Lucia, Haiti, Martinique, and elsewhere had come for the French project.
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Matthew Wills, JSTOR Daily, 30 June 2025
Shapiro complained to the town about the invasion of his privacy, filing affidavits that accused Green of harassing his laborers by filming them through her privet hedge.
—Andrew Rice, Curbed, 26 June 2025
Home Depot, in particular, is a convenient spot for contractors and homeowners in many communities to approach and hire laborers to paint walls, nail down roofing and complete other manual labor projects.
—Nathaniel Meyersohn, CNN Money, 13 June 2025
In Hollywood, officers raided the parking lot of a Home Depot where laborers and food vendors worked.
—Karen Garcia, Los Angeles Times, 22 June 2025
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Matthew Wills, JSTOR Daily, 30 June 2025
Shapiro complained to the town about the invasion of his privacy, filing affidavits that accused Green of harassing his laborers by filming them through her privet hedge.
—Andrew Rice, Curbed, 26 June 2025
Home Depot, in particular, is a convenient spot for contractors and homeowners in many communities to approach and hire laborers to paint walls, nail down roofing and complete other manual labor projects.
—Nathaniel Meyersohn, CNN Money, 13 June 2025
In Hollywood, officers raided the parking lot of a Home Depot where laborers and food vendors worked.
—Karen Garcia, Los Angeles Times, 22 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for laborer
Noun
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Instead, the workplace economy must foster a system that shares risk, prioritizes results, and better supports workers through the full journey to economic mobility.—
Jason Wingard,
Forbes.com,
9 July 2025
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As the number of raids on workers and families escalates, ICE agents will engage in more warrantless knocks on doors, searches, and arrests.—
Robert B. Reich,
Hartford Courant,
9 July 2025
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The country was established with the aim of relocating freed slaves from the United States.—
Michelle Garcia,
NBC news,
10 July 2025
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Schiava, meaning slave in Italian, is thought to be named after its tendency to accumulate to encourage so much fruit and weight that the vine would bend in on itself.—
Paul Caputo,
Forbes.com,
3 July 2025
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“Laborer.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/laborer. Accessed 18 Jul. 2025.
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