Laborers synonyms

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jacks
(Short for) jack rabbit
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workmen
A man who performs manual or industrial labor for wages.
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workers
The definition of a worker is a person or animal that performs a specific or necessary task or who completes tasks in a certain way.
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stevedores
One who is employed in the loading or unloading of ships.
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serfs
(Strategy games) A worker unit.
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roustabouts
(Chiefly US) an unskilled laborer, especially at an oilfield, at a circus or on a ship
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navvies
A laborer, especially one employed in construction or excavation projects.
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hand
An aptitude or ability:
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hacks
A worker for a political party, usually holding office through patronage and serving devotedly and unquestioningly
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drudges
The definition of a drudge is a person who is tasked with boring, dull, repetitive or meaningless work.
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coolies
(Offensive, slang) An unskilled Asian worker, usually of Chinese or Indian descent; a labourer; a porter. Coolies were frequently transported to other countries in the 19th and early 20th centuries as indentured labourers.
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beasts-of-burden
An animal, such as a donkey, ox, or elephant, used for transporting loads or doing other heavy work.
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hirelings
(Usually pejorative) someone who does a job purely for money, rather than out of interest in the work itself
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lackeys
The definition of a lackey is a person who does your dirty work, or who does whatever you ask.
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flunkeys
One who does menial or trivial work; a drudge.
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mercenaries
A professional soldier hired for service in a foreign army.
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automata
A person or animal acting in an automatic or mechanical way
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robots
A machine built to carry out some complex task or group of tasks, especially one which can be programmed.
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instruments
The definition of an instrument is a tool for doing work, particularly for scientific or artistic purposes.
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chattels
A movable item of personal property, as a piece of furniture, an automobile, or a head of livestock
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thralls
One who is in the power of another or under the sway of an influence.
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miners
One whose work or business it is to extract ore or minerals from the earth.
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learners
One that is learning
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operatives
A worker, esp. one skilled in industrial work
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works (related)
An amount of such activity either done or required:
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stooges
The partner in a comedy team who feeds lines to the other comedian; a straight man.
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  • It proved impossible to carry out the scheme; the laborers were too many and too cunning to be crushed.

  • I remember when wages were sixty cents a day for laborers on this very road.

  • No one here knew how to plant crops, but the next town over was made up of farm laborers.

  • They are composed principally of peasants, unskilled workmen and other manual laborers.

  • In August there were strikes among the dock laborers of Genoa and the iron workers of Florence; the latter agitation developed into a general strike in that city, which aroused widespread indignation among the orderly part of the population and ended without any definite result.

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