day labourer BrE
day laborer AmE

But even the day labourer could buy tobacco and sugar.

The work was carried out by day labourers from Italy.

After spending two years at sea, Banks began as a day labourer in 1789.

Farm workers and day labourers are a common sight in these areas.

The others, except if they are farmers, have to be day labourers and servants.

Since his father was over 60 and working as a day labourer he may have moved back to support his parents.

A small number are now employed as day labourers.

In response, many day labourers and other local citizens carried out several days of street protests.

Many have seen a decline in their traditional occupation, and are employed as day labourers.

His father was a day labourer, while his mother worked in a quarry.

So I am living as a day labourer.

Her father was a day labourer, her mother a wet nurse.

Many now earn their living as day labourers.

In the village itself lived many day labourers and craftsmen, above all bricklayers.

The remaining third of the population was made up of both people in learned professions and day labourers.

Each morning saw him up with the lark and afield, a day labourer, for as such he had been born.

I know you told me you are a day labourer and work anything that you can get.

One bomb was planted on a parked motorcycle and exploded near a group of day labourers looking for work.

Early on, most of the tables are taken up by good-natured day labourers headed home from the docks.

A majority of the Deha are now day labourers, with many working in the construction industry.

He was born in Ylivieska, the eldest son of day labourers.

In order to support her family, Sheela joins the ranks of day labourers.

Bangladeshis who come to the Middle East are primarily guest workers or day labourers.

My husband is a day labourer.

In October 1938, this pressure led to a plot to give the day labourers who wanted to secede from the commune.

And I was with children that morning, talking to day laborers.

For the day laborers themselves, the issue has been anything but welcome.

But city officials say they are more concerned with meeting the needs of day laborers and the local community.

I wanted to understand the plight of the day laborers.

Many employ the day laborers, who wait on the street for work.

The department had also hired about 900 additional day laborers.

It would not have reduced the population of day laborers the least bit.

In other places, they now work as agricultural day laborers.

In 1900, he lived with his mother and worked as a day laborer.

We're like the day laborers on planets such as Earth.

At the July meeting, they discussed a center for day laborers.

He was about her age, dressed like a day laborer.

A. First of all, we're trying to organize the day laborers.

Twenty-six percent said they were day laborers for more than three years.

First, they had hoped to have a law on the books by this month, because summer is the high season for day laborers.

It has to do with where we're allowing day laborers to be picked up.

It created a site where day laborers had to go, limiting them to a certain area.

Yet they may be a step up from the day laborers who seem to have less education and probably do not intend to remain here.

By 1971, he was a day laborer with a wife, two children and a bad hip that kept him from working much.

Reality: By some measures, day laborers pay more than their share of taxes.

The ruling is at least the third legal victory this year for day laborers.

Unfortunately many if not all of these day laborers are illegal immigrants.

There was no section dealing with peasants or day laborers.

They work as ranch hands, day laborers, and domestic servants.

Because of his age, he was unable to find another job and began working as a day laborer at construction jobs.