farmworker

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farmworker

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From farm + worker.

noun farmworkers

A person who works on a farm, especially a hired hand. 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.
Similar: farmhand

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@misc{farmworker_2026,
  title = {farmworker},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/farmworker},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}