laborer vs hired hand

hired hand vs laborer

laborer and hired hand both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
laborer	Yes	No	No	No
hired hand	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, hired hand is a hyponym of laborer; that is, hired hand is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than laborer:

laborer: someone who works with their hands; someone engaged in manual labor
hired hand: a hired laborer on a farm or ranch

Other hyponyms of laborer include agricultural laborer, agricultural labourer, bracero, cleaner, day laborer, day labourer, digger, dishwasher, drudge, galley slave, navvy, peon, gandy dancer, gravedigger, hewer, hand, hired man, hod carrier, hodman, gipsy, gypsy, itinerant, faller, feller, logger, lumberjack, lumberman, miner, mineworker, mule driver, mule skinner, muleteer, skinner, platelayer, tracklayer, porter, rail-splitter, splitter, sawyer, section hand, sprayer, stacker, steeplejack, dock-walloper, dock worker, docker, dockhand, dockworker, loader, longshoreman, lumper, stevedore, fireman, stoker, woodcutter, wrecker, yardman.

laborer (noun)	hired hand (noun)
someone who works with their hands; someone engaged in manual labor	a hired laborer on a farm or ranch

Difference between laborer and hired hand

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