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day labour, ˈday-ˌlabour
Labour done as a daily task, or for daily wages; labour hired by the day.
c1449Pecock Repr., His dai labour. c1655Milton Sonn. Blindness, ‘Doth God exact day labour, light denied?’ I fondly ask. 1659B. Harris Parival's Iron Age 245 Such as escaped, fled into Holland, to save their unhappy lives by Day-labour. 1749Berkeley Word to Wise Wks. III. 446 By pure dint of day-labour, frugality, and foresight. 1793Smeaton Edystone L. §101 An expence..as low, in regard to the value of day labour, as could..be expected. 1839H. T. De la Beche Rep. Geol. Cornwall, etc. xv. 569 Though in some mines day-labour is also used under ground. 1850–2J. M. Wilson Farmer's Dict. I. 498/1 The same class of men who perform all kinds of drudgery and day-labour in large towns. 1908W. St. Clair Baddeley Cotteswold Shrine 76 At the same hour ended his day-labours. 1911Rep. Labour & Soc. Cond. Germany III. vi–vii. 207 Half the labour is piece and the other half is day labour. |