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day labor

  day labor

noun

Labor hired and paid by the day.

Related Forms:

  • day laborer

    noun

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Noun

(uncountable)

  1. Work done where the worker is hired and paid one day at a time, with no promise that more work will be available in the future.
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  • Organized Labor
  • labor-intensive
  • labor-market
  • nonlabor
  • National Labor Relations Board
  • National Labor Relations Act
  • laborist
  • Congress of Industrial Organizations
  • means-of-production
  • gulag

WORDS NEAR day labor IN THE DICTIONARY


  • day-in-day-out
  • day-in-the-sun
  • day job
  • day-job
  • day labor
  • day laborer
  • day-laborer
  • day-laborers
  • day-labourer
  • day-lark
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