laborer
pronunciation
How to pronounce laborer in British English:
UK ['leɪbərə]
How to pronounce laborer in American English:
US [ˈlebərɚ]
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- Noun:
- someone who works with their hands; someone engaged in manual labor
Word Origin
- laborer (n.)
- mid-14c., "manual worker," especially an unskilled one, agent noun from labor (v.). Meaning "member of the working class, member of the lowest social rank" is from c. 1400.
Antonym
Example
- 1. He started working as a laborer at a state-owned food wholesaler .
- 2. Pursuing a tan is anathema in china , where women vigilantly cover their skin to avoid the bronze of a laborer .
- 3. According to urban lore , it was unearthed either during subway construction or by a laborer digging a sewer .
- 4. Lehner and brown estimate one laborer might carve a cubic foot of stone in a week .
- 5. He said it because a laborer was staring at it intently . Which meant he wasn 't working .