LABORERS Synonyms: 25 Similar and Opposite Words

laborers

noun

plural of laborer

as in workers

a person who does very hard or dull work they could only find work as laborers unloading cargo ships

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Recent Examples of laborers In Jordan, work and residency permits for migrant laborers are linked to a sponsor, usually the employer, under kafala. — Alexandra Harrell, Footwear News, 12 Aug. 2026 Gutter length and size Materials are typically priced per linear foot, and more gutters mean more work for laborers, too. — Nick Perry, USA Today, 11 Aug. 2026 And the web of contractors, local inspectors, developers, laborers, chipmakers and site managers adds cost, complexity, risk – and delays. — David Goldman, CNN Money, 6 Aug. 2026 Trump also got into trouble for hiring more than two hundred undocumented Polish laborers to handle the demolition. — Kai Bird, New Yorker, 3 Aug. 2026 Both are built by laborers, but opposing a pipeline amounts to stopping the creation of a few thousand jobs. — David Weigel, semafor.com, 31 July 2026 Church leaders were deeply troubled by a new, unrestrained form of capitalism that left laborers with few options other than working on mechanized assembly lines, under harsh terms set by corporate managers. — Walter Scheirer, The Conversation, 31 July 2026 Most of the individual names and stories of these laborers have since been lost. — Sacbee.com, 30 July 2026 Part of the promise of pro-worker AI is to create new tasks, which in many cases will demand that laborers learn new skills. — Daron Acemoglu, The Atlantic, 28 July 2026

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The aid workers who once regularly visited her village to help pregnant women had stopped coming, after foreign aid cuts by the United States shuttered a program aimed at saving mothers’ and babies’ lives.

— ABC News, ABC News, 13 Aug. 2026
The idea is for tech workers to live and work in the same building.

— John Ramos, CBS News, 13 Aug. 2026

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Make the first right on the man who permitted the heads of rebelling slaves to be put on stakes and spread across the city in order to prevent the others from getting any ideas.

— Terry Gross, NPR, 14 Aug. 2026
There were a lot of stories about the richer people that went away amid all the political problems, and the people working for them, the descendants of the slaves.

— Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 13 Aug. 2026

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