hired hands
Paid farm laborers
Hired hands are workers employed to do manual labor, especially on farms or ranches.
The term emphasizes that these are employees rather than owners or family members—people hired for their hands' work: The ranch couldn't function without its hired hands.
The singular hired hand refers to one such worker.
- workersPeople doing jobs
- factotumsAssistants doing varied duties
- laborersWorkers doing physical tasks
- day laborerCasual hired worker
- working stiffOrdinary employed person
migrant worker · crew · staff · employees · temps · manual labor · workforce · seasonal labor · harvest season · personnel · team · cowboy · dairyman · ranching · agriculture · back forty · shepherd · journeyman
- farm lifefarm, farmer, farmers, farming, barn
- laborerslaborers, day laborer, day labourer, day laborers, manual worker
- underlingsunderling, underlings, subordinate, minions, minion
- farm laborfarmhands, farm labor, harvest worker, field workers, harvester
- rural folkpeasantry, countryfolk, farmers, farmhands, farm workers
- Biblical Laborlabor, toil, sowing, reaping, servant
hired handsowners
Those holding legal title
proprietors · bosses · employers · landowners · masters
hired handsfamily members
Related persons collectively
kin · homesteaders · volunteers · unpaid labor · blood relations
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