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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

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

From Time Magazine Archive

The artist, smearing oily gunk on a cloth with bristles, is immersed in mess--a manual worker of images.

From Time Magazine Archive

He is himself a manual worker and also of exceptionally fine physique.

From Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 2 Sexual Inversion by Ellis, Havelock




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