Also spelled labourer

US /ˈleɪ.bɚ.ɹɚ/
noun Freq #25207

Meanings

  1. 1
    noun

    A person who does hard physical work, especially work that needs strength rather than special skill.

    The laborers worked from dawn to dusk building the road.

Thesaurus

Synonyms
1 noun · a person who does hard... workertoiler
Word family
Forms laborerslabourers
Derived forms colaborernonlaborer
Related forms laborist

Etymology

From labor + -er.

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