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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

Moreover, Khrushchev is the first Red czar to have been a laborer, a manual worker.

From Time Magazine Archive

To some extent, also, labour-saving machinery is displacing the manual worker where the tillage of the soil still survives.

From England by Sir Frank Fox




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