labourer or US laborer(ˈleɪbərə
)
Definitions
noun
- a person engaged in physical work, esp of an unskilled kind
Quotations
"The labourer is worthy of his hire"
Translations
- British English:
labourer
A labourer is a person who does a job which involves a lot of hard physical work.He's a farm labourer.ˈleɪbərə NOUN He's a farm labourer.
- Spanish:
jornalero
nm jornalera
- French: travailleur manuel nm
- German:
Arbeiter
nm Arbeiterin
- Chinese: 劳工 n
- Arabic: عَامِلٌ n
- Portuguese: trabalhador manual nm trabalhadora
- Russian: рабочий nm работница
- Croatian: radnik nm
- Czech: dělník nm dělnice
- Danish: arbejder nnt
- Dutch: arbeider nm
- Finnish: työläinen n
- Greek: χειρωνακτικός εργάτης n χειρωνακτική εργάτρια
- Italian: operaio nm operaia
- Japanese: 労働者 n
- Korean: 노동자 n
- Norwegian: arbeider nm
- Polish: robotnik nm robotnica
- Brazilian Portuguese: trabalhador braçal nm trabalhadora
- European Spanish:
jornalero
nm jornalera
- Swedish: arbetare nutr
- Thai: กรรมกร n
- Turkish: işçi n
- Vietnamese: người lao động n
Usage examples
But a labourer would have a wife and family to provide the staple comfort of kinship.
, MR GOLIGHTLY'S HOLIDAY (2003)Now, however, he earns a living by staying in Ahmedabad almost five months in a year, working as a casual labourer.
India Today (1997)WAYNE Bennett is staying at five-star hotels on the Kangaroos Tri-Nations tour of Britain but on his first trip he worked as a labourer.
Courier, Sunday Mail (2004)LITTLE Sarah Payne's naked and mutilated body was found in a field by a farm labourer pulling weeds.
Sun, News of the World (2001)Because the Asiatic and African labourer was cruelly exploited, employers could afford to pay their European workers more.
, The Collins History of the World in the 20th Century (1994)