| 词汇 | laborer |
| 释义 | laborer noun[ C ] uk /ˈleɪ.bər.ər/ us /ˈleɪ.bɚ.ɚ/ US spelling oflabourer（labourer的美式拼写） People who serve other people anti-slavery below/above stairsidiom boot boy butler clerk dogsbody housemaid labourer lackey lady's maid lapdog puppet retainer servant skivvy slave slave trade slaver slavery valet laborer | American Dictionarylaborer noun[ C ] (CdnBrlabourer)us/ˈleɪ·bə·rər/ a person who does physical work: a farm/factory laborer laborer | Business Englishlaborer noun[ C ] USuk /ˈleɪbərər/us → labourer Examples of laborerlaborer Given the high demand for skilled workers and the risks involved in leaving the arsenals, skilled workers were more prone to abscond than common laborers. Without this network integration, it is unlikely that these transitory laborers had much linguistic influence on the emergent variety. We consider three sectors - consumers, farm laborers, and landowners. However, the self-interest of legislators who were country gentlemen employing servants and farm laborers was also a significant factor. Familial stability was at stake in class formation : landless laborers could scarcely be respectable husbands. Becoming a skilled laborer was often seen as an alternative to unprofitable and socially disagreeable agricultural work or menial labor. And there were skilled hands in bulk plants, laborers in batch operations. That is, a laborer might have the power to alienate his or her own labor, to work for another, to bargain collectively, and to wildcat-strike. Consumers and wage laborers may lose where food supply is inelastic and programs reduce labor demand. Female laborers, like so many textile workers, begin the process of inspection and partition based on quality. An additional between one and two adult equivalent laborers rounded out the household. Even without compensation for injury caused by a rolling girder, the lowly laborer could thus be a proud member of the ' ' imperial ' ' corporate body. The relationships formed among farms, farming families and their laborers linked the valley to the surrounding mountains, the coastal plans and the interior. The plight and sufferings of local forced laborers were not a feature in these accounts. Skilled workers had to have at least three months of employment experience, apprentices at least half a year, and common laborers at least a year. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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