Definitions

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  • noun A person hired to work on the farm or in the agricultural industry.

Etymologies

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A compound of farm and worker.

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Examples

  • Simply dressing/looking like a daylaborer or farmworker is not going to be enough.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » Why the Arizona Law is Much Worse than the Federal Law It is Supposedly Based On 2010

  • This was a man who only two weeks earlier had raised a furor in France for calling a farmworker a “poor slob” when he yelled “Keep your dirty hands off me!” as Sarkozy greeted supporters at an agricultural event.

    Un Homme in Full 2008

  • This was a man who only two weeks earlier had raised a furor in France for calling a farmworker a “poor slob” when he yelled “Keep your dirty hands off me!” as Sarkozy greeted supporters at an agricultural event.

    Un Homme in Full 2008

  • This was a man who only two weeks earlier had raised a furor in France for calling a farmworker a “poor slob” when he yelled “Keep your dirty hands off me!” as Sarkozy greeted supporters at an agricultural event.

    Un Homme in Full 2008

  • Oxfam calls farmworker conditions today the equivalent of a "19th century plantation-style" model relying on field hands, rudimentary equipment, long hours, little pay, no benefits, under a basically "inhumane, anachronistic (system crying) out for reform."

    Modern Slavery in America 2009

  • Family, friends recall farmworker's kindness, hard work jcox@bakersfield.com | Wednesday, Jul 21 2010 07: 12 PM

    Bakersfield.com Latest news 2010

  • Oxfam calls farmworker conditions today the equivalent of a "19th century plantation-style" model relying on field hands, rudimentary equipment, long hours, little pay, no benefits, under a basically "inhumane, anachronistic (system crying) out for reform."

    SteveLendmanBlog 2009

  • Oxfam calls farmworker conditions today the equivalent of a

    Countercurrents.org 2009

  • "Even though a farmworker is a black person, you cannot treat him as if you are still in 1989 during the (apartheid) years of the total onslaught.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1999

  • At about that time, I got to know César Chávez, the great farmworker organizer.

    The Good Fight Walter F. Mondale 2010

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