Day Laborer

Definition: Day Laborer

Day Laborer

Noun

1. A laborer who works by the day; for daily wages.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Synonym: Day Laborer

Agent

Workman, artisan; craftsman, handicraftsman; mechanic, operative; working man; laboring man; demiurgus, hewers of wood and drawers of water, laborer, navvy; hand, man, day laborer, journeyman, charwoman, hack; mere tool; beast of burden, drudge, fag; lumper, roustabout.

Crosswords: Day Laborer

Children of agricultural day laborer at home near Webbers Falls. Muskogee County, Oklahoma. Credit: Library of Congress.

Home of former oil worker and miner. McIntosh County. He is now an agricultural day laborer. Credit: Library of Congress.

Drought-stricken farmer and family near Muskogee, Oklahoma. Agricultural day laborer. Muskogee County. Credit: Library of Congress.

Home of day laborer near New Iberia, Louisiana. Credit: Library of Congress.

Home and yard of Mexican day laborer who works in vegetable fields near Santa Maria, Texas. Credit: Library of Congress.

Side of barn of Mexican day laborer with pigeon cote. Near Santa Maria, Texas. Credit: Library of Congress.

Bench of potted plants at side of home of Mexican day laborer. Near Santa Maria, Texas. Credit: Library of Congress.

Former tenant moving into new home where he will be a day laborer. Southern Georgia. Credit: Library of Congress.

House on property of landowner occupied by day laborer and family. Scioto Marshes, Hardin County, Ohio. Credit: Library of Congress.

A migrant day laborer from North Carolina running a tractor near Lake Harbor, Florida. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Albanian

mëditës (day labourer, daysman, daytaler, hireling, laborer, labourer). (various references)

Arabic 

‏عامل باليومية (day labourer), ‏العامل اليومى (day labourer). (various references)

Bulgarian 

надничар (day labourer, daysman, daytaler, wage earner, wageworker). (various references)

Czech

nádeník (handy man, hodman, journeyman). (various references)

German

tagelöhner (day labourer, daytaller, laborer, labourer, peon). (various references)

Greek 

ημεροκαματιάρησ. (various references)

Hungarian

napszámos (coolie, dataller, day labourer, dayman, day-taler, farm hand, hand, journeyman, odd hand, roustabout). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

自�"�労働者 , 日雇い (daily employment, hiring by the day), 日傭取 (journeyman). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ひやとい (daily employment, hiring by the day), ひようとり (journeyman), じゆうろうどうしゃ. (various references)

Pig Latin

ayday aborerlay

Romanian

zilier (dataller, day labourer, jobber, journeyman). (various references)

Russian 

поденщик (day labourer, day-labourer, daysman, dayworker, journeyman). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

nadničar (day labourer, hodman, peon, wage earner). (various references)

Spanish

jornalero (day labourer, laborer, labourer). (various references)

Swedish

dagsverkare (day labourer, daysman, daytaler), daglönare (day labourer, daytaler, peon). (various references)

Ukrainian

подденик (day labourer). (various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: adorable, adorably, arboreal, labrador, larboard, readably.

-3 letters: abrader, already, arbored, areolar, arrayed, boarder, broader, broadly, dryable, labored, laborer, orderly, reboard.

-4 letters: aboard, aboral, abrade, abroad, adorer, albedo, arable, areola, arroba, balder, barely, barley, barred, barrel, bayard, belady, blared, bleary, bolder, bordel, border, boreal, boyard, brayed, brayer, bready, byrled, byroad, dearly, doable, drably, dreary.