FOOT SOLDIERS Synonyms: 25 Similar and Opposite Words

foot soldiers

noun

plural of foot soldier

as in laborers

a person who does very hard or dull work he's been a foot soldier for several environmental organizations over the years

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Recent Examples of foot soldiers Congress has become the president’s foot soldiers. — Carlo Versano, MSNBC Newsweek, 26 Nov. 2025 The result is child foot soldiers hired as hitmen, becoming both the perpetrators of crime and the victims of criminals. — ABC News, 12 June 2026 Traffickers recruit young people, including minors, to serve as foot soldiers in their bloody quest to control drug-trafficking routes across Mexico. — Steve Fisher, Los Angeles Times, 17 May 2026 But, as academic mastery has become secondary to political consciousness, students are no longer being molded into informed citizens so much as into ideological foot soldiers. — Courtney Corbello, Oc Register, 4 Apr. 2026 Barton’s pseudo-scholarship furnished Christian nationalists with valuable ammunition, but the movement needed foot soldiers. — Michael Luo, New Yorker, 14 June 2026 His two foot soldiers now riddled with bullets had bombed the Beth Israel Congregation in Jackson on a foggy night nine months earlier and were en route to bomb a Jewish leader’s home when police gunned them down. — Jennifer Berry Hawes, ProPublica, 4 Feb. 2026 Fans became zealous cultural foot soldiers, streaming, voting and building global communities on Instagram, TikTok and Twitter. — Dan Bilefsky, HollywoodReporter, 21 Mar. 2026 Drone task force security model Haiti National Police Director Andre Jonas Vladimir Paraison said gang leaders are running and hiding while deploying their foot soldiers to the front lines. — Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 27 Jan. 2026

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Noun

In the shrimp ponds, these landless laborers earn only a few dollars a day, with no contracts or protections.

— Zakir Hossain Chowdhury, The Dial, 7 July 2026
Duties while at the firehouse included speaking with laborers and subcontractors, ordering supplies and discussions with other Good Neighbor Investors members, Mora recalled.

— Sacbee.com, Sacbee.com, 7 July 2026

Definition of laborers

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There are more than 70 cardrooms across California employing about 20,000 workers, according to the California Gaming Assn.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 9 July 2026
In March, Jamaica ended its 50-year medical cooperation agreement with Cuba, affecting nearly 300 healthcare workers.

— ABC News, ABC News, 9 July 2026

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