navvy

chiefly British

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for navvy
Noun
  • In one of the tents set up for the devotees in the capital, laborer Ankit Gupta put out plates and food in anticipation of the arrival of the next group of pilgrims.
    Aishwarya S. Iyer, CNN Money, 25 July 2025
  • The document lacks details on how states’ regulations would be judged, but some blue states, like California and New York, have already started passing laws protecting workers’ rights against AI—with support from unions and laborers.
    Meghan Hall, Sourcing Journal, 23 July 2025
Noun
  • Jackson hoped that the exhibition would counter the misconception that medieval women were universally downtrodden drudges.
    Margaret Talbot, New Yorker, 10 July 2025
  • The corporate laborers of the industrial age were drudges, and might have needed the scaffolding of managerial hierarchies to make widgets in bulk.
    Gideon Lewis-Kraus, The New Yorker, 19 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • The next growing season, follow up with a preventative grub treatment applied spring through mid-summer to reduce the grub population.
    Megan Hughes, Better Homes & Gardens, 29 June 2025
  • The dead grass can be caused by brown patch fungus, insects like grubs or chinch bugs, poor lawn care practices, or environmental conditions like drought, heat, or pet urine.
    Mary Marlowe Leverette, Southern Living, 20 June 2025
Noun
  • Kurt Jordan said that the town was in danger of losing its workman’s compensation insurance in January 2024 because his wife couldn’t get the payroll records from the fire corporation.
    Jim Woods, Chicago Tribune, 4 July 2025
  • The workman had no visible signs of trauma that would have killed him.
    Mary Ann Grossmann, Twin Cities, 8 June 2025
Noun
  • Now the last-place Sox are the beleaguered jobbers taking a beating at their home park.
    Peter Abraham, BostonGlobe.com, 6 Aug. 2023
  • Between his backstage segments, and being protected in defeat, Leon Ruff is quietly going from a glorified jobber to a legitimate midcarder.
    Alfred Konuwa, Forbes, 12 May 2021
Noun
  • McCardell is the one who ignored its provenance as a humble workingman’s textile and brought it to women’s wear.
    Julia Turner, The Atlantic, 1 July 2025
  • Kimmel has a great blend of classy guy and workingman’s appeal, but this isn’t his strongest night.
    Bill Wyman, Vulture, 28 Feb. 2025
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“Navvy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/navvy. Accessed 29 Jul. 2025.

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