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单词 day labourer
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Definition of day labourer in English:

day labourer

noun
  • A labourer who is hired and paid on a daily basis.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • In 1970 he was hired as a day labourer for janitorial work in a nuclear power plant.
    • A day laborer is hired by the day, and a rainy day means a day's wages lost.
    • Sekulic, a Croatian-born Serb, earned his living as a day labourer, agricultural worker, factory worker and bricklayer.
    • I've been able to survive as a day laborer for 13 years, but in the last two years, there just haven't been any more jobs.
    • A huddle of poky teashops serves the day labourers who congregate here in search of work.
    • In the United States, there aren't other opportunities for us but to be a day laborer.
    • Within months, however, Boyle worked his way up from a day laborer into a loyal, salaried employee.
    • There are also the matters of informal work, day labourers, part-time workers, and terminating employment.
    • Singleton's father toiled as a day laborer in the oil fields but frequently there was no work, so he came home early.
    • They might be your taxi driver, day labourer, nanny, or mechanic.
    • Manta's grandfather had arrived in this country from Greece in 1908 and began working as a day laborer, painting steel mills.
    • Many live in squalid camps and eke out a living as day labourers.
    • In our country a successful beggar can earn more than a day laborer, because the tradition is to pay something to the beggars.
    • Before joining the cooperative nearly a decade ago, Gitaben worked as a day laborer on a nearby ‘big’ farm.
    • His short stints of gainful employment included work as a day laborer, pencil maker, and surveyor.
    • Sugar mill workers are now being hired as day labourers and stripped of holidays and bonuses.
    • Most are middle-aged or older men, many of whom are former day labourers in the construction industry.
    • Married to a day laborer and a mother of four in India, Sita faced the prospect of hunger every day.
    • I never knew my father; my mother was a day laborer, and we were dirt poor.
    • He had been a day laborer at the shelter, hiring himself out for construction work on a daily basis.
 
 
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