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# laborer

«laborer» in Mova's school dictionary: **A person who does hard physical work for pay, often on a…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (laborers) (American spelling of «labourer»)

### meaning for a pupil

A person who does hard physical work for pay, often on a farm or building site. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/laborer/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

in tales, the farm worker who does the digging, carrying and cleaning on the land

### examples

- The farm laborer emptied the bucket. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/laborer/#x1)
- The priest sent out his laborer. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/laborer/#x2)
- The lord called his laborers to cut the wood. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/laborer/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths; each laborer is one person to count, but the word itself gives no number

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «laborer» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/laborer/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.