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laborer

[lay-ber-er] / ˈleɪ bər ər /


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After returning to Bradford-on-Avon, Byfield initially supported himself as a farm laborer.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 7, 2026

According to tradition, Caedmon worked as a laborer at Whitby Abbey in North Yorkshire.

From Science Daily ● May 17, 2026

This laborer wants to know what you mean by labor becoming tokenized.

From Barron's ● Mar. 27, 2026

A mechanics lien, also referred to as a contractor’s lien, is usually filed by an unpaid contractor, laborer or supplier, as a hold against the property.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 9, 2026

Almost anything would have been better than Pipeworks laborer.

From "The City of Ember" by Jeanne DuPrau

The Transport Workers Union representing those laborers have vowed court action.

From Barron's ● Oct. 22, 2026

Yank believes that it is they, the laborers heaving coal for hours amid the broiling heat of the engine room, who are the real masters of the ship.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026

Once, border migration patterns resembled a loop: thousands of laborers, mostly men, commuted here once or twice a year from Mexico to jobs in the fields, then on to other jobs once harvests were over.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026

From the fourth century to the 14th—when sea travel gradually replaced overland caravans—merchants, laborers, religious leaders, and government officials from across Eurasia convened there to exchange goods and culture.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026

Most were attached to labor battalions, as cooks and stevedores, laborers and gravediggers.

From "Hidden Figures" by Margot Lee Shetterly


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