An Indian and South Asian term for a labourer or manual worker, used across Hindi, Urdu, and related languages and common in Indian English. The word carries no particular stigma and is the ordinary term for someone who does physical labour. Also used in political and trade union contexts.
The mazdoors arrived before dawn to begin unloading the trucks.
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(India, Pakistan) A laborer.
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Regional slang from around the English-speaking world — British, Australian, Irish, Caribbean, Nigerian, Filipino, AAVE, and the hyphenated-English dialects that make the internet sound local.
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