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labourers

labourers is the plural of labourer.

Meaning of labourer

Noun

labourer (plural labourers)

  1. UK standard spelling of laborer.
    • This time was most dreadful for Lilian. Thrown on her own resources and almost penniless, she maintained herself and paid the rent of a wretched room near the hospital by working as a charwoman, sempstress, anything. In a moment she had dropped to the level of a casual labourer.1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XVII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC

Phrases with labourers

Questions about labourers

What is labourers the plural of?
Labourers is the plural of labourer.

Words near labourers in the dictionary

  1. Labourdin
  2. laboured
  3. laboured the point
  4. labouredly
  5. labourer
  6. labourers
  7. labouress
  8. labouresses
  9. labourest
  10. laboureth
  11. labouring

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