| 单词 | labourer |
| 释义 | labourer noun[C] UK(USlaborer)uk/ˈleɪ.bər.ər/us/ˈleɪ.bɚ.ɚ/apersonwho doesunskilledphysicalwork,especiallyoutside: （尤指在户外的）体力劳动者，劳工，工人afarmlabourer农场工人 People who serve other people
labourer| Business Englishlabourer noun[C] (USlaborer)uk/ˈleɪbərər/usapersonwho doesphysicalwork,especiallyoutdoors: agricultural/farm labourersHe toldreportersthey werefarmlaborers, and he could not say if they hadenteredtheUnitedStateslegally. acasual/manuallabourer See alsoday labourer Examplesoflabourerlabourer It should be stressed that the labour force was structured around households and not around individual labourers. From theCambridge English Corpus In the building and craft trades it was unusual to find labourers earning less than 3d per day. From theCambridge English Corpus These provided employment to large numbers of the city population-craftsmen, labourers, artists and others. From theCambridge English Corpus Agriculture appears, therefore, to have been carried out with the assistance of thirteen labourers and only three servants in husbandry. From theCambridge English Corpus According to the bill, all land belonging to the state that was unoccupied or unregistered would be turned into smallholdings and given to agricultural labourers. From theCambridge English Corpus This physicality is often devalued, however, and on many projects skilled professionals can be regarded as little more than unskilled labourers. From theCambridge English Corpus In some cases the employment of wage labourers assumed enormous proportions. From theCambridge English Corpus It is possible that the fate of the third of migrants who were general labourers was a factor in this. From theCambridge English Corpus These officeholders tended to belong to a small group of labourers who are marked out by their visibility in the records. From theCambridge English Corpus Although the legal possibility to enter into written contracts existed, practically all immigrant labourers had merely verbal contracts with their employers. From theCambridge English Corpus Perhaps most noteworthy was the scarcity of farm labourers among the lieutenants, captains, and commandants who ran the movement in the parishes. From theCambridge English Corpus Initially, at least, the growth of the smallholder population only exacerbated a situation of increasing demand for labourers and labour mobility. From theCambridge English Corpus He said that the majority of them were miners and labourers, but the youngest of them were quarriers. From theCambridge English Corpus Traction was provided by two oxen which were managed by two labourers. From theCambridge English Corpus This largely reflects the status difference between agricultural and general labourers and supports the case that this reflects rural perceptions in the late nineteenth century. From theCambridge English Corpus These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. CollocationswithlabourerlabourerThese are words often used in combination withlabourer. Click on a collocation to see more examples of it. agricultural labourer His lasting invalidity made him give up working asagriculturallabourer. From theCambridge English Corpus contract labourer After 1862 landlords could contract labourers without going through the rural magistrate, but the decision could be costly. From theCambridge English Corpus indentured labourer In the first place, the recruitment of indentured labourers was drawing to a close. From theCambridge English Corpus These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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