travailleur manuel

Definitions of travailleur manuel
  1. noun
    someone who works with their hands; someone engaged in manual labor
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    femme de ménage
    someone whose occupation is cleaning
    journalier
    a laborer who works by the day; for daily wages
    fossoyeur
    a person who earns a living by digging graves
    ouvrier agricole
    a hired laborer on a farm or ranch
    itinérant
    a laborer who moves from place to place as demanded by employment
    bûcheron
    a person who fells trees
    mineur
    laborer who works in a mine
    porteur
    a person employed to carry luggage and supplies
    bombe, vaporisateur
    a worker who applies spray to a surface
    arrimeur, docker, débardeur
    a laborer who loads and unloads vessels in a port
    chargeur, chauffeur
    a laborer who tends fires (as on a coal-fired train or steamship)
    bûcheron
    cuts down trees and chops wood as a job
    femme de ménage
    a human female employed to do housework
    mineur
    someone who works in a coal mine
    chercheur d'or
    a miner who digs or pans for gold in a gold field
    berger, gardien
    someone who drives a herd
    employé de ranch
    a hired hand on a ranch
    balayeur, éboueur
    a worker employed to clean streets (especially one employed by a municipal sanitation department)
    laveur de vitres, nettoyeur de vitres
    someone who cleans windows for pay
    type of:
    ouvrier, travailleur
    an employee who performs manual or industrial labor
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