unskilled laborer
Example Sentences
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You may have had a roof leak that local roofers have not been able to fix, or maybe an unskilled laborer tried to fix your problem with a caulk gun loaded with black goo.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 19, 2022
If three highly skilled, expensively trained astronauts can be grounded after striking for a day, what would happen to a relatively unskilled laborer?
From Slate ● Aug. 7, 2019
Unfortunately, just as she's about to get in the boat, she comes to the sick realization that Toomey, an unskilled laborer, couldn't have been working alone.
From Salon ● Nov. 19, 2010
After high school, Mobley's father got him a union card, and he got spot work as an unskilled laborer, including at nuclear power plants in New Jersey and Pennsylvania.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 5, 2010
He would now have to hobble around as an unskilled laborer on a construction crew.
From "Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West" by Blaine Harden
