Word forms: plural labourersregional note: in AM, use laborer
countable noun
A labourer is a person who does a job which involves a lot of hard physical work.
He has worked as a labourer in factories and on building sites.
Her father had been a farm labourer.
Synonyms: worker, or woman or person">workman or woman or person, working man or woman or person, manual worker More Synonyms of labourer
labourer in British English
or US laborer (ˈleɪbərə)
noun
a person engaged in physical work, esp of an unskilled kind
Examples of 'labourer' in a sentence
labourer
Only Americans could make heroes out of farm labourers and solicitors.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
As a labourer building roads.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
Dock labourers were at work on it.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
Others are forced to work as manual labourers.
The Sun (2013)
In the war he worked as an agricultural labourer.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
But in the present times a creditable day labourer would be ashamed to appear in public without a linen shirt.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
Spanish settlers made such a fortune supplying potatoes that they moved many of these labourers to work on their plantations.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
There happened to be an old farm labourer Who came by chance that way.
Jane Brown TALES OF THE ROSE TREE: Ravishing Rhododendrons and their Travels Around the World (2004)
It is a common plant, and farm labourers over the years have given it expressive names.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
The players were like manual labourers, expected to listen and obey.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
The rye was enough for the agricultural labourers, and the manager grew his own food.
Bramwell, Anna C Refugees in the Age of Total War (1988)
He soon found work as a labourer on the railways, but he continued his own war against the occupiers.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
They were itinerant farm labourers.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
His working-class origins and his experience as a manual labourer allowed him to bring a practical understanding of the industrial world to his studies.
Times, Sunday Times (2011)
Many are for medical or specialist staff but a quarter of them are vacancies for unskilled jobs as labourers, hotel workers or sales assistants.
The Sun (2012)
By 1915 more than 100,000 farmers and agricultural labourers were at war.
The Sun (2014)
If the doctor's wisdom is forgotten, those of us who are day labourers in the same vineyard cannot complain of neglect.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
Quotations
The labourer is worthy of his hire
In other languages
labourer
British English: labourer /ˈleɪbərə/ NOUN
A labourer is a person who does a job which involves a lot of hard physical work.
He's a farm labourer.
American English: laborer
Arabic: عَامِلٌ
Brazilian Portuguese: trabalhador braçal
Chinese: 劳工
Croatian: radnik
Czech: dělník
Danish: arbejder
Dutch: arbeider
European Spanish: jornalero
Finnish: työläinen
French: travailleur manuel
German: Arbeiter
Greek: χειρωνακτικός εργάτης
Italian: operaio
Japanese: 労働者
Korean: 노동자
Norwegian: arbeider
Polish: robotnik
European Portuguese: trabalhador
Romanian: muncitor
Russian: рабочий
Latin American Spanish: jornalero
Swedish: arbetare
Thai: กรรมกร
Turkish: işçi
Ukrainian: робітник
Vietnamese: người lao động
All related terms of 'labourer'
day labourer
an unskilled worker hired and paid by the day
dock labourer
a worker employed in the loading or unloading of ships
farm labourer
a person engaged in physical work on a farm
casual labourer
a person who is employed on a temporary , rather than a permanent or regular basis
manual labourer
a person whose job involves working with the hands
building labourer
an unskilled worker on construction sites
Chinese translation of 'labourer'
labourer
or laborer
(ˈleɪbərəʳ)
n(c)
劳(勞)动(動)者 (láodòngzhě) (名, míng)
(noun)
Definition
a person engaged in physical work
Her husband had been a farm labourer.
Synonyms
worker
Wages have been frozen and workers laid off.
or woman or person">workman or woman or person
The workmen were building a fence around the area.
working man or woman or person
manual worker
hand
He now works as a farm hand.
blue-collar worker
drudge
I was treated like a household drudge.
unskilled worker
navvy (British, informal)
He spent 18 months doing navvy's work on a building site.
labouring man
proverb
The labourer is worthy of his hire
Additional synonyms
in the sense of drudge
Definition
a person who works hard at an uninteresting task
I was treated like a household drudge.
Synonyms
menial,
worker,
servant,
slave,
toiler,
dogsbody (informal),
plodder,
factotum,
scullion (archaic),
skivvy (British),
maid or man of all work
in the sense of hand
Definition
a manual worker
He now works as a farm hand.
Synonyms
worker,
employee,
labourer,
workman,
operative,
or woman or person">craftsman or woman or person,
artisan,
artificer,
hired man,
hireling
in the sense of navvy
Definition
a labourer on a building site or road
He spent 18 months doing navvy's work on a building site.