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say it: brah-CHER-oh
bracero is a noun meaning "a Mexican laborer who worked in the United States on farms and railroads in order to ease labor shortages during World War II". It is pronounced /bɹɑˈtʃɛɹoʊ/ — brah-CHER-oh. It carries one recorded sense.
a Mexican laborer who worked in the United States on farms and railroads in order to ease labor shortages during World War II
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for bracero come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.