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farmworkers

farmworkers is the plural of farmworker.

Meaning of farmworker

Noun

farmworker (plural farmworkers)

  1. A person who works on a farm, especially a hired hand.
    • Though American legislators renewed restrictive immigration policies in the two decades after the war, they allowed employers of farmworkers to import some 4.5 million Mexican "braceros" and Caribbean "offshores," as the workers were called.2001, Cindy Hahamovitch, “In America Life is Given Away”, in Catherine McNicol Stock, Robert D. Johnston, editors, The Countryside in the Age of the Modern State, Ithaca: Cornell University Press...
    Synonyms:
    farmhand

Questions about farmworkers

What is farmworkers the plural of?
Farmworkers is the plural of farmworker.

Words near farmworkers in the dictionary

  1. farmwives
  2. farmwoman
  3. farmwomen
  4. farmwork
  5. farmworker
  6. farmworkers
  7. farmworks
  8. farmy
  9. farmyard
  10. farmyards
  11. farmyardy

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