Usually means: Temporary, short-term employment work.
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We found 14 dictionaries that define the word day labor:

General (13 matching dictionaries)
  1. day labor: Merriam-Webster
  2. day labor: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. day labor: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. day-labor: Wordnik
  5. day labor: Wiktionary
  6. day labor: Infoplease Dictionary
  7. Day-labor, day labor: Dictionary.com
  8. Day labor: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  9. Day-labor: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  10. day-labor: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  11. Day-labor: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  12. day-labor: FreeDictionary.org
  13. Day-labor, day labor: TheFreeDictionary.com

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. day labor: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (day labor)

▸ noun:  Work done where the worker is hired and paid one day at a time, with no promise that more work will be available in the future.

Similar:
daywork, man-day, working day, lay day, woman-day, double day, dargue, dataler, workday, dataller, more...

Opposite:
night shift, full-time job

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Similar:
daywork, man-day, working day, lay day, woman-day, double day, dargue, dataler, workday, dataller, more...

Opposite:
night shift, full-time job



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