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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

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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

What the manual worker attains as the result of prolonged experience is a passable performance, but not at all the maximum of skill.

From Psychology A Study Of Mental Life by Robert S. Woodworth




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