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名詞

farm worker (plural farm workers)

1. A person who works on, but does not own, a farm; an agricultural labourer / agricultural laborer.

Further reading

• “farm worker”, in Collins English Dictionary, 2011–present.
• “farm worker”, in Merriam-Webster.com Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
• “farmworker”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.

名詞

farmworker (plural farmworkers)

1. A person who works on a farm, especially a hired hand.
   • 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, →ISBN, page 136:

     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.

   • 2017 March 31, “Hail Cesar!”, in National Review:

     Congress ended the bracero program in 1964, and the next 15 years were the salad days, as it were, for farmworkers

   • 2020 October 19, Miriam Jordan, “Migrant Workers Restricted to Farms Under One Grower’s Virus Lockdown”, in The New York Times‎, archived from the original on 2020-10-19:

     Purdue University researchers estimate that more than 149,500 farmworkers had contracted Covid-19 as of Oct. 16. […] “It’s illogical. We wear masks and take the same precautions as everybody else,” a farmworker called Juan said.

同意語

• farmhand

等位語

• farmer (coordinate in its strict sense)

参考

• laborer

Further reading

• “farmworker”, in Collins English Dictionary.
• “farmworker”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
• “farmworker”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.