bracero

Borrowed from Spanish bracero (“laborer”).

• IPA^(key): /bɹəˈsɪəɹəʊ/ (or as Spanish, below)

bracero (plural braceros)

1. (historical) A Mexican national working as an agricultural laborer in the United States from 1942-1964, or similarly a railroad worker from 1942-1945.

From brazo (“arm”) +‎ -ero.

• IPA^(key): /bɾaˈθeɾo/ [bɾaˈθe.ɾo] (Spain, Equatorial Guinea)
• IPA^(key): /bɾaˈseɾo/ [bɾaˈse.ɾo] (Latin America, Philippines)
• Rhymes: -eɾo
• Syllabification: bra‧ce‧ro

bracero m (plural braceros)

1. labourer, farmhand, navvy

• “bracero”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025