"farmworker" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: farmworkers [plural]
Etymology: From farm + worker. Etymology templates: {{af|en|farm|worker}} farm + worker Head templates: {{en-noun}} farmworker (plural farmworkers)
  1. A person who works on a farm, especially a hired hand. Categories (topical): Occupations, People Synonyms: farmhand Related terms: laborer Coordinate_terms: farmer (english: coordinate in its strict sense)

Inflected forms

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          "text": "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.",
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