Usage Note
Jornalero refers to a farm or manual worker paid by the day (jornada) rather than on a fixed salary. It is strongly associated with agricultural Spain, particularly Andalusia, where landless jornaleros were a major social and political force in the 19th and 20th centuries. The feminine form is jornalera.
Examples
"Los jornaleros empezaban a trabajar al amanecer."
Natural Translation
The day labourers started work at dawn.
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