day laborer
Example Sentences
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Ricardo, who earns a meager income as a day laborer, shares his small single-family house with 18 other people, including his three children, parents and other extended family.
From Barron's • Oct. 17, 2025
A day laborer, an organizer, a serenader, a skilled cumbia dancer and, now, an actor.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 15, 2025
He also represents the family of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a day laborer who was mistakenly deported to his native El Salvador in the spring, then returned on the order of a federal judge.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 24, 2025
Many of the workers were registered with IDEPSCA’s day laborer program.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 20, 2025
For more than a year he worked harder than a day laborer.
From Great Inventions and Discoveries by Piercy, Willis Duff
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.