Definition of farmworker in US English:
farmworker
nounˈfɑrmˌwərkərˈfärmˌwərkər
A person employed to work on a farm.
Example sentencesExamples
- Agricultural pesticides may be applied by farmworkers or growers to reduce infestations of insects or rodents.
- Approximately 30 percent of farmworkers migrated over the course of the summer.
- Still later, social reformers found ample material to photograph in California - from migrant farmworkers to unemployed factory workers.
- There are generally no other jobs available for unemployed farm workers in a rural area.
- In the nineteenth century, there was a regular pattern of seasonal migration of farm workers from Ireland to Britain.
- Female farmworkers ' access to housing often is dependent on their relationship to male farmworkers.
- For migrant farmworkers, health conditions are even worse.
- In stripping farm workers of any union rights, the Tories claimed to be defending the traditional family farm.
- There are an estimated 600,000 to 1 million farm workers in California.
- Farm workers receive the lowest wages of any sector in the country.
- During early summer of 1999, interviewers recruited farmworkers at 36 housing sites.
- The research was intended to make a contribution to validating the cultural citizenship of farmworkers in the U.S.
- Some farm workers make about $6.50 an hour picking apples.
- She was born to migrant farm workers from Mexico.
- The Safety Statement also includes safe farming procedures that must be applied by all farm workers for each task on the farm.
- Among the farm workers welcoming the weather was Paul Wainwright, of Holtby, near York.
- The morning jolt of mariachi comes from Radio Bilingue, one of the nation's only public radio stations aimed at farmworkers.
- Thousands of farm workers, mainly Spanish-speaking migrants, have been laid off.
- The risk of pesticide exposure among farmworkers is well established.
- On that day in October, our research agenda was to document some of the variable housing conditions of farmworkers in different labor camps.