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🇩🇪German Source WordCode: DE

Farmarbeiter

Pronunciation / Transliteration: faʁmˌaʁbaɪtɐ

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Station-hand/ˈsteɪ.ʃənˌhænd/
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🇩🇪 Example Sentence in German:

"Der Farmarbeiter half beim Treiben der Rinder auf der großen Farm."

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1 sense
As noun
  1. 1

    A farm worker employed on a large pastoral property or sheep/cattle station, particularly in Australia or New Zealand.

    "The station-hand spent the morning mustering cattle across the distant paddocks."
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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

The term combines 'station', used in Australian and New Zealand English to denote a large pastoral lease or farm, with 'hand', meaning a manual worker. Emerging in the 19th century during the expansion of the colonial pastoral industry, it reflects the specialized vocabulary developed in Australasia for rural labor.

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