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laborers

noun as in little people

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All in all, approximately 13,000 Allied POWs and 90,000 Asian laborers perished while working on the railway.

Many were skilled artisans, but some were compelled into service as forced prison laborers.

Above them hang portraits of the original clandestine laborers.

Sayyed, who never went to school, was one of the laborers hired by organized gangs to loot.

The organization counts scientists, journalists, lawyers, laborers, and businessmen among its members and supporters.

More laborers are needed for the Jesuit missions, as well as for those conducted by the friars.

The generall mayne body of the planters are divided into Officers, Laborers, Farmors.

Only the laborers on the plantations smoke small clay pipes.

We no longer live in an age when down-trodden laborers meet by candlelight with the ban of the law upon their meeting.

So congress has excluded not only diseased, criminal, pauper and anarchist immigrants, but also contract and Chinese laborers.

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On this page you'll find 6 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to laborers, such as: dwarfs, elfenfolk, elves, fairies, fairyfolk, and leprechauns.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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