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# labourer

noun (a labourer, labourers); US spelling laborer

«labourer» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

A person whose job is hard physical work, such as building, digging or farming, usually without special training. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/labourer/#m1)

### In the lessons

In history lessons, labourers built canals and railways and worked on farms and in factories. In everyday life, a builder's labourer carries bricks on a building site. In Bible stories, Jesus told a parable about labourers in a vineyard. Phrases: farm labourer, day labourer, builder's labourer.

### Examples

- The labourers dug the trench for the new pipe. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/labourer/#x1)
- My great-grandad was a farm labourer. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/labourer/#x2)
- Thousands of labourers built the railway. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/labourer/#x3)
- In the parable, the labourers in the vineyard were all paid the same. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/labourer/#x4)
- The labourer carried bricks up the ladder. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/labourer/#x5)
- Labourers often work outside in all weathers. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/labourer/#x6)
- ‘I want to get work as a day labourer,’ he answered. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/labourer/#x7)

### Note

UK, Australia, NZ, Ireland and Canada usually spell labourer; the USA spells laborer. Related: labour (work), laboratory (a science room, different meaning).

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «labourer» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/labourer/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«labourer» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/labourer.html) on Mova free.