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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

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

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

Democracy is wider than the confines of the manual worker.

From The War and Unity Being Lectures Delivered At The Local Lectures Summer Meeting Of The University Of Cambridge, 1918 by D. H. S. (David Herbert Somerset) Cranage




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