Laborer synonyms
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The strength or force of one's position:
ditch-digger
A laborer who is is hired and paid one day at a time, with no promise that more work will be available in the future.
unskilled worker
manual laborer; carpenter's helper
bricklayer's helper
etc.; ranch hand
farm hand
A hired farm laborer.
construction hand
etc.; apprentice
hired man
transient worker
seasonal laborer
roust-about
A dockworker involved in loading and unloading cargo.
A soldier, often a specialist, engaged in mining operations.
street cleaner
A person under the moral or psychological domination of someone or something
helot
A person in servitude; a serf.
A person in bondage or servitude.
villein
Any of a class of feudal serfs who by the 13th cent. had become freemen in their legal relations to all except their lord, to whom they remained subject as slaves
A slave or convict forced to ply an oar of a galley.
wage-slave
A wage earner whose livelihood is completely dependent on the wages earned.
(Law) An article of movable personal property.
A tool or implement, esp. one used for delicate work or for scientific or artistic purposes
One who allows oneself to be used for another's profit or advantage; a puppet.
A person who works mechanically without original thought, especially one who responds automatically to the commands of others.
A person who acts like a machine or robot, often defined as having a monotonous lifestyle and lacking in emotion.
(Informal) Any person of low social status, esp. one employed at menial or tedious work
One who serves or works merely for monetary gain; a hireling.
A person with very minor or menial tasks
A liveried male servant; a footman.
(Usually pejorative) an employee who is hired, often to perform unpleasant tasks with little independence
(Pejorative) One who is professionally successful despite producing mediocre work. (Usually applied to persons in a creative field.)
Any animal, as a donkey, used for carrying loads
worker (related)
One who works at a particular occupation or activity:
coolie
An unskilled Asian laborer.
(Brit.) An unskilled laborer, as on canals, roads, etc.
plebe
The definition of a plebe is a new freshman or cadet, especially at a military training academy.
A deck or wharf laborer, especially on the Mississippi River.
workhand
(Slang) A woman prostitute.
A man who performs heavy manual or industrial labor.
A woman who is gainfully employed; often, specif., such a woman as distinct from a housewife
work (related)
Something that has been produced or accomplished through the effort, activity, or agency of a person or thing:
One who performs manual labor
pick-and-shovel man
Find another word for laborer. In this page you can discover 57 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for laborer, like: blue-collar worker, hand, esne, workman, ditch-digger, day-laborer, unskilled worker, toiler, manual laborer; carpenter's helper, bricklayer's helper and etc.; ranch hand.