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発音

• (英国発音) IPA: /ˈleɪ.bə.ɹə/

名詞

labourer (plural labourers)

1. British standard spelling of laborer.
   • 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XVII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:

     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.

   • 1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 392:

     By the mid-19th century, the typical village was sharply divided between the landowning class and the landless, voteless and largely illiterate labourers.

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