Definition of "day-laborer" [day•-la•bor•er]

• One who works by the day; -- usually applied to a farm laborer, or to a workman who does not work at any particular trade. (noun)

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

• ""Clearly, the economy is central when people consider whether to leave their home countries," said Chris Newman, legal director of the National Daylaborer Organizing Network, which represents 43 day-laborer centers across the country."
• "Next, there were the three young men -- Cardiff and Hale, who had been farmers, and Wainwright, a common day-laborer."
• "The impassive, almost zombie-like Jean joins in a drunken, rowdy, post-pub sing-song at her flat with Dawn, her asthmatic, preening Irish husband Mick (Allen Leech) and the gawky Len (Craig Parkinson), another day-laborer, who has returned to London after his wife left him."