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Definition of day labourer in English: day labourernoun A labourer who is hired and paid on a daily basis. Example sentencesExamples - In 1970 he was hired as a day labourer for janitorial work in a nuclear power plant.
- A day laborer is hired by the day, and a rainy day means a day's wages lost.
- Sekulic, a Croatian-born Serb, earned his living as a day labourer, agricultural worker, factory worker and bricklayer.
- I've been able to survive as a day laborer for 13 years, but in the last two years, there just haven't been any more jobs.
- A huddle of poky teashops serves the day labourers who congregate here in search of work.
- In the United States, there aren't other opportunities for us but to be a day laborer.
- Within months, however, Boyle worked his way up from a day laborer into a loyal, salaried employee.
- There are also the matters of informal work, day labourers, part-time workers, and terminating employment.
- Singleton's father toiled as a day laborer in the oil fields but frequently there was no work, so he came home early.
- They might be your taxi driver, day labourer, nanny, or mechanic.
- Manta's grandfather had arrived in this country from Greece in 1908 and began working as a day laborer, painting steel mills.
- Many live in squalid camps and eke out a living as day labourers.
- In our country a successful beggar can earn more than a day laborer, because the tradition is to pay something to the beggars.
- Before joining the cooperative nearly a decade ago, Gitaben worked as a day laborer on a nearby ‘big’ farm.
- His short stints of gainful employment included work as a day laborer, pencil maker, and surveyor.
- Sugar mill workers are now being hired as day labourers and stripped of holidays and bonuses.
- Most are middle-aged or older men, many of whom are former day labourers in the construction industry.
- Married to a day laborer and a mother of four in India, Sita faced the prospect of hunger every day.
- I never knew my father; my mother was a day laborer, and we were dirt poor.
- He had been a day laborer at the shelter, hiring himself out for construction work on a daily basis.
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