Definition of "day-labor" [day•-la•bor]

• Labor hired or performed by the day. (noun)

Gnu Collaboartive International Dictionary of English: licensed under The Code Project Open License (CPOL)

• "Enberg has long volunteered to help homeless veterans and helped put together a veterans 'day-labor program, now defunct."
• "From local conflicts over day-labor to churches struggling with how to integrate new immigrants into their congregations, we were consistently confronted with misconceptions and misinformation about unauthorized immigration."
• "By essentially barring the legal entry of low-skilled immigrant workers, our own government has created the conditions for an underground labor market, complete with smuggling and day-labor operations."