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Meanings of labourer in English

Portuguese
trabalhador
Catalan
peó
Spanish
peón

Someone who works with their hands; someone engaged in manual labor.

trabalhador

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Usage of labourer in English
1
The foremost labourer took the coin and held it to the lantern.
The Mating of Lydia
2
The labourer crossed to the other side of the road and followed.
The Grell Mystery
3
In short, the future literature of the labourer becomes a serious question.
Hodge and His Masters
4
The third Reform Act enfranchised the agricultural labourer and the country artisan.
A Short History of Wales
5
Since then, he's moved away and been working as a farm labourer.
The Irish Times
6
Private employers complain of scarcity and the unreliability of the unskilled labourer.
The Philippine Islands / A Political, Geographical, Ethnographic...
7
He is described in the census as a general labourer but unemployed.
The Irish Times
8
All, from the king to the day-labourer, were improved in their condition.
Selections from the Speeches and Writings of Edmund Burke
9
The labourer stared in amazement, first at me, then at the maid-servant.
A Reckless Character, and Other Stories
10
The retailer himself is the only productive labourer whom it immediately employs.
An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations
11
Another group of refugees, wearing straw hats and labourer's drab, passed by.
Tetrarch (Well of Echoes)
12
As for Blodget, he was in the usual dress of a labourer.
Wyandotté; Or, The Hutted Knoll: A Tale
13
Take the little labourer therefore back to the place he came from.
Legends of the Rhine
14
The morning afterwards he saw a labourer mixing mortar before the door.
Diary in America, Series Two
15
The artist, the writer, the mere labourer-therewere too many of them.
All Roads Lead to Calvary
16
The labourer, the shepherd, and the sailor, dare not approach them nearer.
The Sonnets, Triumphs, and Other Poems of Petrarch
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Catalan
peó
Labourer through the time
Labourer across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
Ireland
Common
United States of America
Less common