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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | menial worker |
| Synonyms: | drudge, farm worker, farmhand, gopher, laborer, peasant, serf, servant, slave, unskilled laborer |
| Main Entry: | drudge |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | slave, very hard worker |
| Synonyms: | factotum, grind*, laborer, menial, nose to grindstone, peon*, plodder, servant, toiler, workaholic, worker, workhorse |
| Antonyms: | idler, laze |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | gofer |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | errand boy or girl |
| Synonyms: | bottom person on the totem pole, gal Friday, go getter, grunt, guy Friday, hired help, low person on the totem pole, office boy, office girl, peon, scrub |
| Main Entry: | inferior |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | less in rank, importance |
| Synonyms: | back seat, bottom, bottom-rung, entry-level, junior, less, lesser, lower, menial, minor, minus, nether, peon, second, second-banana, second-fiddle, second-string, secondary, smaller, subjacent, subordinate, subsidiary, under, underneath |
| Antonyms: | best, better, extraordinary, first-class, first-rate, foremost, superior |
| Main Entry: | inferior |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person of lesser rank, importance |
| Synonyms: | adherent, attendant, auxiliary, deputy, disciple, follower, hanger-on, hireling, junior, menial, minion, minor, peon, satellite, second banana, subaltern, subject, subordinate, sycophant, underling |
| Antonyms: | superior |
| Main Entry: | laborer |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | worker |
| Synonyms: | blue-collar worker, drudge, farmhand, grunt, hand, hireling, manual worker, migrant worker, peon, unskilled worker, working man/woman, working stiff |
| Main Entry: | peasant |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | farmer |
| Synonyms: | boor, bumpkin, countryman/woman, cropper, farmhand, hayseed, hick, hired hand, laborer, peon, planter, provincial, rube, rustic, serf, sharecropper, villein |
| Main Entry: | serf |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | slave |
| Synonyms: | bondservant, bondsman/woman, chattel, laborer, peon, servant, vassal, villain, villein |
| Main Entry: | slave |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person who serves, often under duress |
| Synonyms: | bondservant, captive, chattel, drudge, help, laborer, menial, peon, retainer, serf, servant, skivvy, subservient, thrall, toiler, vassal, victim, worker, workhorse |
| Antonyms: | master |
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