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manual worker

NOUN
someone who does physical work for a living
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He and his working-class peers, on the other hand, were “put on the fast lane” to become a manual worker.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 16, 2020

Times recently bemoaned the evisceration of the American middle class, a topic that Laura Clawson jumped on at Daily Kos, pointing out that a manual worker can no longer carve out a middle class lifestyle. 

From Forbes ● Aug. 21, 2011

Their complaints: in most countries a physician makes five to nine times as much as a manual worker, but in Israel he is lucky if he makes half as much again.

From Time Magazine Archive

Premiums, contributed equally by employers and employees, amount to 3% of white collar, and 5% of manual worker salaries.

From Time Magazine Archive

For it has come to this: that the professional as well as the manual worker finds inspiration in the working-girls' club.

From The Leaven in a Great City by Lillian William Betts


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