laborer
person who does physical work
A person who is paid to do hard physical work, usually without special training, for example on a building site or a farm.
a laborer in [industry]
- The company hired several laborers to help with the road repairs before winter.
- As a young man he worked as a construction laborer to pay for college.
- Seasonal farm laborers arrive every summer to pick fruit in the orchards.
- The new law is meant to protect migrant laborers from unsafe working conditions.
- The project will create hundreds of jobs for local laborers over the next two years.
- My uncle is a laborer on a big building site.
- The farm needs many laborers in the summer.
- The laborers carried heavy bricks all day.
- They hired ten laborers to clean the old factory.
- As a laborer, she works outside in all kinds of weather.
- Base: laborer
- Plural: laborers
construction laborer
1worker doing basic tasks on sites
A person who helps on building sites by doing simple physical jobs like carrying materials or cleaning the area.
- The construction laborers mixed cement and moved it to the workers pouring the foundation.
- He started as a construction laborer and later trained to become an electrician.
day laborer
1worker hired and paid by the day
A person who does physical work and is hired and paid one day at a time, often with no long-term job agreement.
- He found work as a day laborer at the construction site.
- Many day laborers wait on the corner each morning hoping someone will hire them.
farm laborer
1farm worker doing physical tasks
A person who does hard physical work on a farm, like picking fruit or caring for plants and animals.
- During the harvest, the farm laborers work from sunrise to sunset.
- The farm laborers were busy loading boxes of vegetables onto the trucks.
manual laborer
1person doing mainly physical labor
A worker who mainly uses their body, not a computer or office skills, to do their job.
- The factory employs hundreds of manual laborers on the production line.
- As a manual laborer, he spends most of his day lifting and carrying heavy materials.
migrant laborer
1worker who moves for temporary labor
A person who travels to other places or countries to do temporary physical work, often on farms or in factories.
- The new policy could affect thousands of migrant laborers who work in the region each year.
- Many migrant laborers send money home to support their families.
seasonal laborer
1laborer hired only in busy seasons
A worker who is hired only at busy times of the year, like harvest time or tourist season, to do extra physical work.
- The farm hires seasonal laborers every autumn to help with the apple harvest.
- Many seasonal laborers work in the fields for a few months and then return home.
skilled laborer
1laborer with specific training
A worker who does physical work that needs special training or experience, such as operating machines or using special tools.
- Skilled laborers are needed to operate the heavy equipment on the construction site.
- After several years of training, she moved from unskilled to skilled laborer jobs.
unskilled laborer
1laborer with no special training
A worker who does simple physical jobs that do not need special training or a certificate.
- The company is looking for unskilled laborers to help with basic warehouse tasks.
- As an unskilled laborer, he was given the simplest and heaviest jobs on the site.