agricultural laborer
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3.2
- noun
- /ˌæɡrɪˈkʌltʃərəl ˈleɪbərər/
:
trabajador agrícola
- Social distinctions are banished from the aestheticized village, which holds no place for the rich peasant, the sharecropper, or the agricultural laborer.
- work as agricultural laborers
- small farmers and agricultural laborers
Examples
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Between 1952 and 1967, Martin Santiago made seven trips to the United States, where he worked as an agricultural laborer in California, Arizona, and Texas.
Academic text (2000) -
It has increased the incomes of agricultural laborers and small cultivators' households in invaluable ways.
Academic text (2004) -
Throughout the South, life was harsh for enslaved agricultural laborers.
Academic text (2009) -
The agricultural laborers of Lebanon are criticized for their lack of progress in farming technology.
Academic text (1997) -
Many were poor, either agricultural laborers from the countryside or low-income workers in Tanta's factories and service industries.
Academic text (2009) -
Agricultural laborers in Berkshire and Buckinghamshire were among the poorest in England.
Academic text (1995) -
Long classified as racial inferiors, Mexican immigrants often served as replacement agricultural laborers following the exclusion of Asian immigrants.
Academic text (2002) -
Furthermore, even while the camps were filling, the government began releasing some Japanese Americans: first agricultural laborers and students beginning in mid-1942, then draftees and other individuals deemed loyal by the end of the same year.
Academic text (1995) -
If contemporaries as diverse as Davies and Young were both able to perceive the ways in which many were injured by enclosures and to recognize the value to national stability of dealing fairly with the agricultural laborer, it is not difficult to believe that Turner could have felt a sense of national pride in English agriculture and its part in the war effort while simultaneously being aware of and concerned about the toll exacted on the rural poor.
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Many agricultural laborers work long hours in the fields to harvest crops.
Synonyms
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1.1
A person who works on a farm doing jobs like planting or harvesting
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4.4
A person who works on a ranch caring for cattle or horses
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3.0
A person paid to work on a farm doing hard work
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3.6
A person paid to do manual work on a farm or ranch
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1.6
A person who works on a farm doing physical tasks like planting and caring for animals
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4.0
A person who does hard physical work on a farm
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8.2
A person who works as a farmer in rural areas, especially in Latin America
A person who works on a farm doing physical work in the fields
How Skilled
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a person who works on farms' is directly and compositionally derived from 'agricultural' (relating to farming) + 'laborer' (a manual worker), so a learner who knows both words will readily infer the phrase. This noun phrase follows a common and cross-linguistically familiar modifier + noun pattern, making it highly transparent to B1 learners.
Etymology
Agricultural laborer joins agricultural (about farming) and laborer (a person who does hard work). Imagine someone bent over in a field planting, digging, and picking crops, so it means 'a person who works on farms'.