drudger

as in laborer
a person who does very hard or dull work a youth striving to become something more than just a drudger working at some dead-end job

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Noun
  • The laborers who make these goods earn as little as $5 an hour, including overtime, for workdays that can last 10 hours or more.
    Keith Bradsher, New York Times, 14 Feb. 2025
  • In Nepal, a U.S.-based nonprofit named the La Isla Network put on hold its work on chronic kidney disease, a deadly condition believed to be linked to heat stress and dehydration that has emerged as a threat to manual laborers in hot countries.
    ByCatherine Offord, science.org, 5 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • There’s a lot of talk in the Florida Legislature right now about cracking down on unauthorized workers in the state.
    Thomas Kennedy, Orlando Sentinel, 27 Feb. 2025
  • This particular set would be sold to a bigger supplier that would then ship the lights and other components to a plant in Fort Wayne, Indiana, where 4,400 American workers build GMC's Sierra truck.
    Lauren Villagran, USA TODAY, 27 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • Many of his foot soldiers are young software engineers with no government experience who have parachuted into federal agencies seeking to overhaul or even dismantle them.
    Theodore Schleifer, New York Times, 14 Feb. 2025
  • Musk, who typically posts between 50 and 100 tweets per day, is taking the bottom-up approach by letting foot soldiers supply suggestions that get seen — and acted on — by his Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).
    Neal Rothschild, Axios, 8 Feb. 2025
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“Drudger.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/drudger. Accessed 6 Mar. 2025.

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