单词
day labourer
释义
day labourernoun[C]HRUK(USday laborer)uk
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apersonwho isemployedfor onedayat atime:There are 24,000daylabourersin Los Angeles,accordingtoresearch, more than in any other UScity.(Definition ofday labourerfrom theCambridge Business English Dictionary? Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofday labourer
day labourerInstead, he worked as adaylaboureron construction sites.FromWikipediaThis 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.FromWikipediaThis 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 CorpusThe 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 CorpusArrived in the city, he obtained the names of all the harlots, and then hired himself as adaylabourer.FromProject GutenbergHe had been making money at something like the rate of adaylabourer.FromProject GutenbergThere he had begun by working as help to a gold-digger, as adaylabourer, in the sweat of his brow.FromProject GutenbergNot one of them was written for an artist who had been forced by hard luck to turn into adaylabourer.FromProject GutenbergHe paid his way in part through college with money he earned as adaylaboureron farms during the summer.FromProject GutenbergThe work closes earlier, that is, so far as thedaylaboureris concerned, for he gets the best of this as of other things.FromProject GutenbergThese 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.#https://dictionary.cambridge.org//dictionary/english/day-labourer##
