| 单词 | migrant labourer |
| 释义 | > as lemmasmigrant labourer migrant labourer n. (a) a worker who travels from place to place in search of (temporary) employment; (b) South African spec. a black worker employed within the migrant labour system. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to conditions > [noun] > casual or temporary worker temporary1846 casual1851 occasional1867 migrant labourer1899 floater1909 guest worker1927 temp1932 gig worker2009 1899 B. King Ital. Unity I. 84 Migrant labourers came in gangs from the hills in harvest-time. 1948 Rep. Native Laws Comm. 1946–8 (Dept. Native Affairs, S. Afr.) 11/1 In the Transvaal..the migrant labourers in the compounds of the gold mines..account for about 300,000 out of the total of 776,055 Native males. 1986 P. Maylam Hist. Afr. People of S. Afr. 145 In the twentieth century the flow of migrant labourers to the Rand mines continued to increase dramatically. 1992 B. Coote Trade Trap x. 133 Zenaida is one of around half a million people, Mexicans and other Central American migrant labourers, who work in the maquiladora sector. < as lemmas |
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