labourer

labourer US, laborer [ˈleɪbərə]

n

(Business / Professions) a person engaged in physical work, esp of an unskilled kind

Thesaurus

Noun

1.

labourer - someone who works with their hands; someone engaged in manual labor laborer, manual laborer, jack agricultural laborer, agricultural labourer - a person who tills the soil for a living bracero - a Mexican laborer who worked in the United States on farms and railroads in order to ease labor shortages during World War II cleaner - someone whose occupation is cleaning day laborer, day labourer - a laborer who works by the day; for daily wages digger - a laborer who digs dishwasher - someone who washes dishes navvy, peon, drudge, galley slave - a laborer who is obliged to do menial work gandy dancer - a laborer in a railroad maintenance gang gravedigger - a person who earns a living by digging graves hewer - a person who hews hired hand, hired man, hand - a hired laborer on a farm or ranch; "the hired hand fixed the railing"; "a ranch hand" hod carrier, hodman - a laborer who carries supplies to masons or bricklayers gipsy, gypsy, itinerant - a laborer who moves from place to place as demanded by employment; "itinerant traders" faller, feller, logger, lumberjack, lumberman - a person who fells trees miner, mineworker - laborer who works in a mine mule driver, mule skinner, muleteer, skinner - a worker who drives mules platelayer, tracklayer - a workman who lays and repairs railroad tracks porter - a person employed to carry luggage and supplies rail-splitter, splitter - a laborer who splits logs to build split-rail fences sawyer - one who is employed to saw wood section hand - a laborer assigned to a section gang sprayer - a worker who applies spray to a surface stacker - a laborer who builds up a stack or pile steeplejack - someone who builds or maintains very tall structures dock worker, dock-walloper, docker, dockhand, dockworker, loader, longshoreman, lumper, stevedore - a laborer who loads and unloads vessels in a port fireman, stoker - a laborer who tends fires (as on a coal-fired train or steamship) woodcutter - cuts down trees and chops wood as a job working man, working person, workingman, workman - an employee who performs manual or industrial labor wrecker - someone who demolishes or dismantles buildings as a job yardman - a laborer hired to do outdoor work (such as mowing lawns)

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labourer

noun worker, workman, working man, manual worker, hand, blue-collar worker, drudge, unskilled worker, navvy (Brit. informal), labouring man Her husband had been a farm labourer.

Proverbs
"The labourer is worthy of his hire"

Translations

labourer laborer (US) [ˈleɪbərəʳ] N (on roads etc) → peón m, obrero/a m/f; (= farm labourer) → trabajador(a) m/f del campo, peón m; (= day labourer) → jornalero/a m/f (Agr) → bracero/a m/f
bricklayer's labourer → peón m de albañil

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labourer [ˈleɪbərə^r] (British) laborer (US) n

(on building site, in factory) → manœuvre mf

farm labourer → ouvrier/ière m/f agricole
labour force (British) labor force (US) n

[country] → population f active
Unemployment in Britain rose to 8.1% of the labour force → Le chômage au Royaume Uni atteignait 8.1% de la population active.

[company] → main-d'œuvre f
labour-intensive [ˌleɪbə^rɪnˈtɛnsɪv] (British) labor-intensive (US) adj [method, industry] → gros* consommateur* de main d'œuvre(grosse)/trice
Construction remains a labour-intensive industry → Le bâtiment demeure une industrie grosse consommatrice de main d'œuvre.
labour market (British) labor market (US) n → marché m du travail
Labour movement (British) labour movement (British) labor movement (US) n
the Labour movement → le mouvement travailliste
labour pains (British) labor pains (US) npl → douleurs fpl, douleurs fpl de l'accouchement
Labour Party (British) n
the Labour Party → le parti travailliste
labour relations (British) labor relations (US) npl → relations fpl du travail
labour-saving [ˈleɪbə^rseɪvɪŋ] (British) labor-saving (US) adj [machine, gadget] → qui facilite le travail
labour-saving devices → appareils qui facilitent le travail
labour unrest (British) labor unrest (US) n → agitation f sociale
labour ward (British) labor ward (US) n → salle f de travail

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labourer, (US) laborer

n → (Hilfs)arbeiter(in) m(f); (= farm labourer) → Landarbeiter(in) m(f); (= day-labourer) → Tagelöhner(in) m(f)

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labourer laborer (Am) [ˈleɪbərəʳ] n (on building site) → manovale m; (on farm) → bracciante m

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