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/brəˈse(ə)rō/,
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braceros, plural;
  1. A Mexican laborer allowed into the US for a limited time as a seasonal agricultural worker

  1. (bracero) a Mexican laborer who worked in the United States on farms and railroads in order to ease labor shortages during World War II
  2. The Bracero Program (from the Spanish word brazo, meaning "arm") was a series of laws and diplomatic agreements, initiated by an August 1942 exchange of diplomatic notes between the United States and Mexico, for the importation of temporary contract laborers from Mexico to the United States. U. ...
  3. (bracero) A Mexican national working as an agricultural laborer in the United States from 1942-1964, or similarly a railroad worker from 1942-1945; Of or pertaining to braceros, and especially the Bracero Program
  4. (Bracero) From the Spanish brazo, which translates as "arm", applies to the temporary agricultural and railroad workers brought into the United States as an emergency measure to meet the labor shortage of World War II. ...
  5. (bracero) hired hands, temporary immigrant workers
  6. A U.S. government-sponsored worker importation program, begun in 1942, under which more than three million Mexicans entered the U.S. to labor in the agricultural fields. The bracero program ended in 1964. The U.S. Department of Labor officer in charge of the program, Lee G. ...