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unskilled laborer

NOUN
worker without training
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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




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