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labourer

UK/ˈleɪ.bə.ɹə/
nounB2+Rare in speech; mostly a word you read · #14,467 of 15,258leans written

Other forms: labourers

A labourer is a worker who does heavy unskilled work. A farm labourer, hire a labourer, labourers on site.

The word describes the work rather than the person, and much of it demands real judgement and endurance whatever the label says. Americans spell it laborer, and general labourer is still a job title on every building site.

Lee, Russell, 1903-1986, photographer · Public domain

Definitions of labourer

  1. 1nounlabourerA worker who does heavy unskilled work.B2+

    “He worked as a labourer on building sites, carrying bricks and mixing cement.”

labourer is a worker.

Also accepted in games: laborer

Where it comes from

  1. Latin

    labor

  2. Old French

    labor

  3. Middle English

    labor

  4. English

    labour

  5. English, today

    labourer

From labour + -er. labour comes from Middle English labor, labour, labur, from Old French labor (modern labeur) and its etymon, Latin labor.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practised in Jobs & Professions

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labourer in the wild

  • A laborer (or labourer) is a person who works in manual labor typed within the construction industry.

    Laborer

  • A wage labourer is a person whose primary means of income is from the selling of their labour in this way.

    Wage labour

  • Bill Sikes's murder of Nancy shocks him so much that at the end of the novel he leaves London to become an agricultural labourer.

    Charley Bates

  • Alex McDade was a Glasgow poet and labourer who went to Spain to fight with XV International Brigade in the Spanish Civil War.

    Alex McDade

  • Chaudhary was a forced child labourer as part of the, now abandoned, Kamlari system.

    Shanta Chaudhary

From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.

Related words

the labor family

elaborateavalanchelabour

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