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manual worker

NOUN
someone who does physical work for a living
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He and his working-class peers, on the other hand, were “put on the fast lane” to become a manual worker.

From Washington Post • Dec. 16, 2020

Times recently bemoaned the evisceration of the American middle class, a topic that Laura Clawson jumped on at Daily Kos, pointing out that a manual worker can no longer carve out a middle class lifestyle. 

From Forbes • Aug. 21, 2011

Their complaints: in most countries a physician makes five to nine times as much as a manual worker, but in Israel he is lucky if he makes half as much again.

From Time Magazine Archive

Moreover, Khrushchev is the first Red czar to have been a laborer, a manual worker.

From Time Magazine Archive

What the manual worker attains as the result of prolonged experience is a passable performance, but not at all the maximum of skill.

From Psychology A Study Of Mental Life by Woodworth, Robert S.




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