| 单词 | laborer |
| 释义 | laborer (once / 550 pages) n A laborer is a worker, especially a person who does some kind of physical work. A stone mason is a laborer, but you probably wouldn't call a poet a laborer. In the old days, the word laborer implied an unskilled or menial worker, like a day laborer on a farm who might be hired at an hourly rate to haul rocks out of a field, or a street paver's assistant. Today, a laborer is thought of as someone who works with her hands, often outside. Laborer comes from labor, in Old French "work, exertion, or task," from the Latin laborem, "toil, exertion, or fatigue." WORD FAMILYlaborer: laborers+/labor: labored, laborer, laboring, laborious, labors/labored: laboredly/laborious: laboriously, laboriousness USAGE EXAMPLESMonday's blast in Sadr City hit a square where day laborers typically gather. Reuters(Jan 02, 2017) In June, I sent Ancestry my list of enslaved laborers along with the names of the slave owners who insured them. New York Times(Dec 23, 2016) “To report a boss is not easy,” said a Mexican laborer, speaking on condition of anonymity because he feared being blacklisted by employers. Seattle Times(Dec 22, 2016) n someone who works with their hands; someone engaged in manual labor Syn|Exp|Hypo|Hyper jack, labourer, manual laborer Paul Bunyan a legendary giant lumberjack of the north woods of the United States and Canada Ali Babathe fictional woodcutter who discovered that `open sesame' opened a cave in the Arabian Nights' Entertainment agricultural laborer, agricultural labourer a person who tills the soil for a living braceroa Mexican laborer who worked in the United States on farms and railroads in order to ease labor shortages during World War II cleanersomeone whose occupation is cleaning day laborer, day labourera laborer who works by the day; for daily wages diggera laborer who digs dishwashersomeone who washes dishes drudge, galley slave, navvy, peona laborer who is obliged to do menial work gandy dancera laborer in a railroad maintenance gang gravediggera person who earns a living by digging graves hewera person who hews hand, hired hand, hired mana hired laborer on a farm or ranch hod carrier, hodmana laborer who carries supplies to masons or bricklayers gipsy, gypsy, itineranta laborer who moves from place to place as demanded by employment faller, feller, logger, lumberjack, lumbermana person who fells trees miner, mineworkerlaborer who works in a mine mule driver, mule skinner, muleteer, skinnera worker who drives mules platelayer, tracklayera workman who lays and repairs railroad tracks portera person employed to carry luggage and supplies rail-splitter, splittera laborer who splits logs to build split-rail fences sawyerone who is employed to saw wood section handa laborer assigned to a section gang sprayera worker who applies spray to a surface stackera laborer who builds up a stack or pile steeplejacksomeone who builds or maintains very tall structures dock worker, dock-walloper, docker, dockhand, dockworker, loader, longshoreman, lumper, stevedorea laborer who loads and unloads vessels in a port fireman, stokera laborer who tends fires (as on a coal-fired train or steamship) woodcuttercuts down trees and chops wood as a job wreckersomeone who demolishes or dismantles buildings as a job yardmana laborer hired to do outdoor work (such as mowing lawns) char, charwoman, cleaning lady, cleaning woman, womana human female employed to do housework chimneysweep, chimneysweeper, sweepsomeone who cleans soot from chimneys coal miner, collier, pitmansomeone who works in a coal mine ditch digger, mud diggera laborer who digs ditches farm worker, farmhand, field hand, fieldhanda hired hand on a farm gold digger, gold miner, gold pannera miner who digs or pans for gold in a gold field drover, herder, herdsmansomeone who drives a herd housebreaker, housewreckera wrecker of houses knackersomeone who buys old buildings or ships and breaks them up to recover the materials in them peasantone of a (chiefly European) class of agricultural laborers placer minera miner who extracts minerals from a placer by washing or dredging prospectorsomeone who explores an area for mineral deposits ranch handa hired hand on a ranch redcapa porter who helps passengers with their baggage at a railroad station scorera logger who marks trees to be felled scourersomeone who cleanses by scouring cropper, sharecrop farmer, sharecroppersmall farmers and tenants skycapa porter who helps passengers with their baggage at an airport groom, hostler, ostler, stableboy, stablemansomeone employed in a stable to take care of the horses street cleaner, street sweepera worker employed to clean streets (especially one employed by a municipal sanitation department) strip minera miner who does strip mining swagger, swaggie, swagmanan itinerant Australian laborer who carries his personal belongings in a bundle as he travels around in search of work tinkerformerly a person (traditionally a Gypsy) who traveled from place to place mending pots and kettles and other metal utensils as a way to earn a living trenchersomeone who digs trenches window cleanersomeone who cleans windows for pay working man, working person, workingman, workman an employee who performs manual or industrial labor |
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