noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ VERB
work
▪
Between 300,000 and 800,000 children like Damaris are working as hired laborers in commercial U.S. agriculture today.
▪
The biggest complaints here come from women who work as machinists, laborers , and handlers.
▪
Men may work periodically as day laborers on others' fields, as carpenters, or masons.
▪
Few had any special skills; they worked as casual laborers , eking out a marginal existence, often reduced to begging.
▪
That afternoon he set out walking to Harrisburg, where his father was working as a laborer on a new turnpike.
▪
Her father, Robert Hand, was an unsuccessful artist and musician who worked as a laborer .
▪
When he was older, Taylor did serve an apprenticeship and did work as a laborer and machinist.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪
a farm laborer
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪
Arturo is a laborer who works for $ 4 an hour, about six hours a day.
▪
Few had any special skills; they worked as casual laborers, eking out a marginal existence, often reduced to begging.
▪
Hearst had to pay 65 laborers for nine months to dismantle the monastery, crate it up and move it.
▪
Men may work periodically as day laborers on others' fields, as carpenters, or masons.
▪
Some are technicians, some are artists, some are craftsmen, and some are just laborers.
▪
The biggest complaints here come from women who work as machinists, laborers, and handlers.
▪
They also want Tokyo to aid not only the original laborers but their offspring as well.