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jornalero

day labourer

noun hohr-nah-LEH-rroh Rare

Usage Note

Jornalero refers to a farm or manual worker paid by the day (jornada) rather than on a fixed salary. It is strongly associated with agricultural Spain, particularly Andalusia, where landless jornaleros were a major social and political force in the 19th and 20th centuries. The feminine form is jornalera.

Examples

"Los jornaleros empezaban a trabajar al amanecer."

Natural Translation

The day labourers started work at dawn.

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