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 His mother, whose parents were also killed at Auschwitz, worked as a forced laborer during the war, jumped from a train and broke her shoulder in an attempt at escape, then was transferred to the Theresienstadt camp. Lois K. Solomon, Sun Sentinel, 3 Feb. 2025 The laborers who make these goods earn as little as $5 an hour, including overtime, for workdays that can last 10 hours or more. Keith Bradsher, New York Times, 14 Feb. 2025 In Nepal, a U.S.-based nonprofit named the La Isla Network put on hold its work on chronic kidney disease, a deadly condition believed to be linked to heat stress and dehydration that has emerged as a threat to manual laborers in hot countries. Bycatherine Offord, science.org, 5 Feb. 2025 Many Mexican laborers had been working in construction at the time but went back to Mexico when the U.S. housing market collapsed. Jennifer Van Hook, The Conversation, 4 Feb. 2025 See All Example Sentences for laborer

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“Laborer.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/laborer. Accessed 12 Mar. 2025.

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