Laborer synonyms
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manual laborer; carpenter's helper
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.
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unskilled worker
bricklayer's helper
etc.; ranch hand
farm hand
A hired farm laborer.
construction hand
etc.; apprentice
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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.
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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.
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.
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(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.
(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
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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:
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.
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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
peasant (related)
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sharecropper (related)
day-labourer (related)
handicraftsmen (related)
pick-and-shovel man
A person who acts like a machine or robot, often defined as having a monotonous lifestyle and lacking in emotion.
Find another word for laborer. In this page you can discover 61 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for laborer, like: manual laborer; carpenter's helper, hand, esne, workman, blue-collar worker, ditch-digger, day-laborer, unskilled worker, toiler, bricklayer's helper and etc.; ranch hand.