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FARM WORKER
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Dictionary entry overview: What does farm worker mean?
• FARM WORKER (noun)
The noun FARM WORKER has 1 sense:
Familiarity information: FARM WORKER used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A hired hand on a farm
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Synonyms:
farm worker; farmhand; field hand; fieldhand
Hypernyms ("farm worker" is a kind of...):
hand; hired hand; hired man (a hired laborer on a farm or ranch)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "farm worker"):
dairymaid; milkmaid (a woman who works in a dairy)
dairyman (a man who works in a dairy)
farmerette (a woman working on a farm)
gleaner (someone who picks up grain left in the field by the harvesters)
harvester; reaper (someone who helps to gather the harvest)
picker (someone who gathers crops or fruits etc.)
ploughman; plower; plowman (a man who plows)
waterer (someone who waters plants or crops)
weeder (a farmhand hired to remove weeds)
Context examples
In addition to the resistance showed by traditional communities, such as indigenous people and descendents of slaves; farm workers— small land owners included—still occupy prohibited territories.
(Brazilian savanna unprotected, study finds, Agência Brasil)
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