day-labouringday-laboringadj.
/ˈdeɪleɪb(ə)rɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈdeɪˌleɪb(ə)rɪŋ/ Of a labourer: that is hired or paid by the day; that earns a living by day labour.
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society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to conditions > [adjective] > hired for specific period of time
day-labouring1577
semestrial1701
yearly1707
seasonal1904
perm1916
1577 J. Knewstub Lect. 20th Chapter Exodus xiii. 241 The father setteth him to some worke, promising to giue him wages for it, as he doeth vnto day-labouring-men.
1621 R. Burton Anat. Melancholy i. ii. iv. vi. 207 Those ordinary slaues, and day-labouring drudges.
1680 Abstr. of Accusation R. Bolron & L. Maybury 1 Lawrence Maybury, (being the Son of a Day-labouring Forge-Smith about Leeds).
1740 C. Cibber Apol. Life C. Cibber xiii. 250 The day-labouring actors.
1810 Sporting Mag. 35 213 Simpson is a day-labouring man.
1877 Pop. Sci. Monthly Mar. 595 A poor, day-laboring mechanic, with a large family.
1917 Studies 6 102 The day labouring population was in many places almost wholly unemployed.
1989 M. Hanagan in P. E. Ogden & P. E. White Migrants in Mod. France v. 90 The declining labour needs of a dairying economy severely affected the position of these day-labouring families.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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