day labourer
noun[C]
HRUK(USday laborer)ukusapersonwho isemployedfor onedayat atime:
There are 24,000daylabourersin Los Angeles,accordingtoresearch, more than in any other UScity.
单词 | day labourer |
释义 | day labourer noun[C] HRUK(USday laborer)ukusapersonwho isemployedfor onedayat atime: There are 24,000daylabourersin Los Angeles,accordingtoresearch, more than in any other UScity. Examplesofday labourerday labourer Instead, he worked as adaylaboureron construction sites. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. He calls himself adaylabourer, but will work for nobody and busies himself merely with gathering horse dung in the streets, where he can be an idler. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. A somewhat smaller group of 10 to 20 per cent worked either as a servant or, later in their lives, as adaylabourer. From theCambridge English Corpus The street vendor had purchased the cards from a sailor for 20 francs each, who had, in turn, purchased them from adaylabourerfor 15 francs apiece. From theCambridge English Corpus Arrived in the city, he obtained the names of all the harlots, and then hired himself as adaylabourer. FromProject Gutenberg He had been making money at something like the rate of adaylabourer. FromProject Gutenberg There he had begun by working as help to a gold-digger, as adaylabourer, in the sweat of his brow. FromProject Gutenberg Not one of them was written for an artist who had been forced by hard luck to turn into adaylabourer. FromProject Gutenberg He paid his way in part through college with money he earned as adaylaboureron farms during the summer. FromProject Gutenberg The work closes earlier, that is, so far as thedaylaboureris concerned, for he gets the best of this as of other things. FromProject Gutenberg 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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