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labouring

 adjective
     
la‧bour‧ing British English ; laboring American English [only before noun]
1

labouring class/family etc

old-fashioned people who do hard physical work and who do not have a lot of money or power, considered as a group:
They wanted to provide education for the labouring classes.
2 involving hard physical work:
a labouring job
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