Usually means: Worker hired and paid daily.
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  1. day laborer: Merriam-Webster
  2. day laborer: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. day laborer: Vocabulary.com
  4. day-laborer: Wordnik
  5. day laborer: Wiktionary
  6. day laborer: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  7. day laborer: Infoplease Dictionary
  8. Day-laborer, day laborer: Dictionary.com
  9. Day laborer: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. Day-laborer: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  11. day-laborer: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  12. day laborer: Rhymezone
  13. Day-laborer: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  14. day-laborer, day laborer: FreeDictionary.org
  15. day laborer: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. Day-laborer, day laborer: TheFreeDictionary.com

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Definitions from Wiktionary (day laborer)

▸ noun:  A laborer who is hired and paid one day at a time, with no promise that more work will be available in the future.

Similar:
day labourer, dayworker, daysman, manual laborer, laborer, worker, tasker, itinerant worker, workingman, workman, more...

Opposite:
salaried employee, permanent employee, full-time worker

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Similar:
day labourer, dayworker, daysman, manual laborer, laborer, worker, tasker, itinerant worker, workingman, workman, more...

Opposite:
salaried employee, permanent employee, full-time worker



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