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n. One who uses body strength instead of intellectual power to earn a wage, usually hourly.

n. One who labors in a toilsome occupation; a person who does work that requires strength rather than skill, as distinguished from that of an artisan.

n. One who labors or works with body or mind, or both; specifically, one who is engaged in some toilsome physical occupation; in a more restricted sense, one who performs work which requires little skill or special training, as distinguished from a skilled workman; in the narrowest sense, such an unskilled workman engaged in labor other than that of a domestic servant, particularly in husbandry.

n. someone who works with their hands; someone engaged in manual labor

"It may mean -- I hope so -- that they are going to provide a level of the wages between the so-called brain worker and the manual worker, for in Russia today, the laborer is the privileged class-the sort of "nouveau riche" of today, whereas the brain worker does not receive nearly so many privileges."

artisan   

working person    workingman    workman   

laborist   

galley slave    gravedigger    digger    hodman    lumberman    dock worker    section hand    rail-splitter    skinner    drudge   

labor    labourer    labour   

worked   

laborers    labourer    artisan    tradesman    miner    worker    fisherman    farmer    peasant    landowner