agricultural laborer
Definition
- Noun:
- A person who works on a farm, especially one who performs physical labor in cultivating crops or raising livestock: An agricultural laborer is someone whose primary occupation involves manual work in farming activities, such as plowing, planting, harvesting, or tending to animals, typically for wages.
Usage Examples
- Noun:
- The farm depends on seasonal agricultural laborers to harvest the fruit.
- He worked his entire life as an agricultural laborer on the same estate.
- The new policy aims to improve the living conditions of agricultural laborers.
Advanced Usage
- "Landless agricultural laborer": A worker who does not own any farmland and works on others' land for a living.
- The movement fought for the rights of landless agricultural laborers.
Variants and Related Words
- Farmworker (n): A person who works on a farm; often used interchangeably with agricultural laborer.
- Farmhand (n): A worker employed on a farm, especially for manual labor.
- Field hand (n): A laborer who works in the fields.
Synonyms
- Farm laborer: A worker on a farm.
- Peasant: (In some historical or regional contexts) A poor farmer of low social status who owns or rents a small piece of land for cultivation; can also refer to an agricultural laborer.
- Hired hand: A person hired to do manual work, often on a farm.
Related Phrases
- Migrant agricultural laborer: A farmworker who travels from place to place to find work, often following crop harvests.
- Migrant agricultural laborers face unique challenges regarding housing and healthcare.
Related Idioms
- To be tied to the land: To have one's life and work completely connected to farming, often with little freedom to leave. This can describe the condition of many agricultural laborers historically.
- For generations, his family had been tied to the land as agricultural laborers.
Noun
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a person who tills the soil for a living
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