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laborer
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[ noun ] (work) someone who works with their hands; someone engaged in manual labor
Synonyms Used in print (Jack Kaplan, "The Health Machine Menace: Therapy by...)Sarah_Gross , a dress_shop proprietor , paid $ 1020 to a masseur , and Mr._A. , a laborer , paid $ 4200 to a chiropractor for treatment with two fake health machines - the `` radioclast '' and the `` diagnometer '' . (W. E. B. DuBois, Worlds of Color....)But it had , as was usual in southern cities of this sort , a Black_Bottom , a low region near the river where the Negroes lived - servants and laborers huddled_together in a region with no sewage save the river , where streets and sidewalks were neglected and where there was much poverty and crime . (Irving Stone, The Agony and the Ecstasy....)Not bulky laborers , but sinewy men . (John Cheever, "The Brigadier and the Golf Widow,"...)Mrs._Pastern undertook the work of going from house to house with the thoughtless resignation of an honest and traditional laborer . Related terms workman muleteer hired_hand miner stevedore porter gravedigger hewer digger sprayer hod_carrier dishwasher cleaner lumberman wrecker rail-splitter sawyer section_hand drudge steeplejack yardman stoker woodcutter gandy_dancer day_laborer stacker agricultural_laborer bracero itinerant platelayer labor |
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