labourer

CEFRB2

/ˈleɪ.bə.ɹə/

noun

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01
noun
The British spelling of laborer, a person doing physical work for wages.
02
noun
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British standard spelling of laborer.

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By the mid-19th century, the typical village was sharply divided between the landowning class and the landless, voteless and largely illiterate labourers.

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By the mid-19th century, the typical village was sharply divided between the landowning class and the landless, voteless and largely illiterate labourers.
1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 392
This time was most dreadful for Lilian. Thrown on her own resources and almost penniless, she maintained herself and paid the rent of a wretched room near the hospital by working as a charwoman, sempstress, anything. In a moment she had dropped to the level of a casual labourer.
1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XVII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC

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From labour + -er.