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Farm Worker

Definition: Farm Worker

Farm Worker

Noun

1. A hired hand on a farm.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

 

Specialty Definitions: Farm Worker

DomainDefinitions

Food & Agriculture

A person doing agricultural work for wages. Source: European Union. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Synonyms: Farm Worker

Synonyms: farmhand (n), fieldhand (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Farm Worker

Specialty definitions using "farm worker": CHRISTMAS-TREE FARM WORKERSection 516 grants, special place, SUPERVISOR, FIELD-CROP FARMING, supervisor, grove, supervisor, orchard, SUPERVISOR, TREE-FRUIT-AND-NUT FARMING. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Farm Worker

DomainTitle

Books

  • A Day in the Life of a Victorian Farm Worker (reference)

  • Jessie de la Cruz: A Profile of a United Farm Worker (reference)

  • Ministry of the Dispossessed: Learning from the Farm Worker Movement (reference)

  • The Politics of Insurgency: The Farm Worker Movement in the 1960s (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Music

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: Farm Worker

Photos:
Farm Worker

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Photo Album: Farm Worker

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Farm worker in Lafayette County, Wisconsin, take samples of manure for analysis.Credit: Bob Nichols.

Migrant farm worker hauls apples with tractor near Winchester, VA.Credit: USDA.

Home of farm worker who works on corporation farm. Eighty Acres Glassboro, New Jersey.Credit: Library of Congress.

Daughter of farm worker reads her Bible. FSA (Farm Security Administration) migratory labor camp mobile unit. Wilder, Idaho.Credit: Library of Congress.

Farm worker in beer parlor on Sunday afternoon. Bruce Crossing, Michigan.Credit: Library of Congress.

Newton County, Missouri. Camp Crowder area. A former farm worker, now a construction worker.Credit: Library of Congress.

Nyssa, Oregon. Japanese-American farm worker.Credit: Library of Congress.

Shelley, Idaho. Japanese farm worker who lives at the FSA (Farm Security Administration) mobile camp working on a lawn in town.Credit: Library of Congress.

Rupert, Idaho. Former CCC (Civilian Conservation Corps) camp now under FSA (Farm Security Administration) management. A Japanese-American farm worker.Credit: Library of Congress.

Twin Falls, Idaho. FSA (Farm Security Administration) farm workers' camp. Japanese farm worker who lives at the camp.Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Farm Worker

SubjectTopicQuote

Worker Rights

United Arab Emirates

A farm worker in Al-Ain died after being buried alive in sand while digging a well. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Farm Worker

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

united farm worker

43

migrant farm worker

32

farm worker

22

depression farm worker

6

out about the united farm worker of america

4

farm worker union

3
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Farm Worker

Language Translations for "farm worker"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Danish

  

landbrugsmedhjaelper (agricultural laborer, agricultural labourer, beet producer, beetgrower, beet-grower, groom, horse-keeper, stablehand, stud groom, sugar beet worker). (various references)

   

French

  

ouvrier agricole (farm hand). (various references)

   

German

  

landwirtschaftlicher Arbeiter (agricultural laborer, agricultural labourer), Landarbeiter (agricultural laborer, agricultural labourer, farmhand, laborer, labourer). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

εργάτης γης (agricultural laborer, agricultural labourer). (various references)

   

Italian

  

operaio agricolo (agricultural laborer, agricultural labourer). (various references)

   

Manx

  

obbree hallooin (farmhand). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

armfay orkerway

   

Portuguese

  

subsídios agrícolas. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

trabajador agrícolo. (various references)

   

Swedish

  

dräng (attendant, farm-worker, ploughman, servant). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

rençper (agricultural laborer, agricultural labourer, cottager, farm hand, farm laborer, farm labourer, laborer, labourer, rancher, ranchman), çiftlik işçisi (farm hand, farm laborer, farm labourer, rancher, ranchman). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Farm Worker

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: farmworker.

Words within the letters "a-e-f-k-m-o-r-r-r-w"

-1 letter: framework.

-2 letters: farmwork, workfare.

-3 letters: armorer, earworm, forearm.

-4 letters: farmer, farrow, femora, foamer, forker, former, framer, marker, marrer, marrow, reform, remark, remora, rewarm, rework, roamer, roarer, warmer, womera, worker, wormer.

-5 letters: afore, armer, armor, arrow, awoke, error, faker, farer, foram, forme, frame, freak, frore, maker, morae, mower, ormer, raker, rarer, rawer, rearm, rower, wafer, waker.

 Words containing the letters "a-e-f-k-m-o-r-r-r-w"
 

+1 letter: farmworkers.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Farm Worker


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

46 61 72 6D      57 6F 72 6B 65 72

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000110 01100001 01110010 01101101 00100000 01010111 01101111 01110010 01101011 01100101 01110010

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#70 &#97 &#114 &#109 &#32 &#87 &#111 &#114 &#107 &#101 &#114

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0046 0061 0072 006D      0057 006F 0072 006B 0065 0072

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

406784792578184777184

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Images: Slideshow
6. Images: Photo Album
7. Quotations: Non-fiction
8. Expressions: Internet
9. Translations: Modern
10. Anagrams
11. Orthography
12. Bibliography


  

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