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"day laborer" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use this term to refer to someone who works on a day-to-day basis for low wages, usually doing manual labor. For example, "Many immigrants in this town work as day laborers in order to make ends meet."
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day laborer
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A laborer who is hired and paid one day at a time, with no promise that more work will be available in the future.
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The day laborer regretted his decision.
An emperor summons a poor day laborer.
Mr. Yaqoub was hardly an illiterate day laborer.
Mary Drummond spent much of her time in nearby Endicott working intermittently as a day laborer.
Mr. Gotti's father, an often unemployed day laborer, led a hardscrabble life.
This bleak scene is playing out at scores of day laborer sites across the region.
He was Kader Mia, a Muslim day laborer knifed by Hindus.
But Genaro Caceres Camones, a day laborer, is still serving a 10-year sentence for treason.
Khan, who worked as a day laborer, was on his way to a construction site.
Mr. Carranza, a father to one child, sometimes worked as a day laborer.
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Anyone this articulate and composed would have risen far above day-laborer status.
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