Farmworker
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Farmworker is a noun meaning A person who works on a farm, especially a hired hand.
Meaning
A person who works on a farm, especially a hired hand.
Example Sentences
Congress ended the bracero program in 1964, and the next 15 years were the salad days, as it were, for farmworkers
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.
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.
Word Forms
- farmworkers
Synonyms for farmworker
Depending on context, synonyms include farmhand.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include farmhand, fieldworker, workhand, farmman, landworker, farmer.
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