noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a care worker British English (= someone whose job is looking after people )
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She's a part-time care worker with mentally ill adults.
a charity worker (= someone who works for a charity, often without pay )
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Charity workers say these reforms will not help the poor.
a construction worker
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Thousands of construction workers are out of work.
a factory worker
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The factory workers are threatening to go on strike.
a farm worker
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We rely on migrant farm workers to pick the crop.
a migrant worker
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The strawberries are picked by migrant workers.
a miracle worker (= someone who performs miracles )
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A doctor is just a person, not a miracle worker.
a relief worker
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The relief workers have to bring in clean drinking water by tanker.
a rescue worker
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Rescue workers are searching through the rubble for survivors.
a shift worker
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The meetings are at different times so that shift workers have an opportunity to attend.
aerospace company/worker etc
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employment in the aerospace industry
aid worker
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UN aid workers
ambulance staff/crew/worker
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The ambulance crew removed him from the wreckage.
an aid worker
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Aid workers warned of a worsening situation.
care worker
guest worker
immigrant workers
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Many immigrant workers had to live in deprived areas.
manual job/labour/worker etc
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low-paid manual jobs
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People in manual occupations have a lower life expectancy.
office staff/workers/equipment etc
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Office staff need well-designed desks and chairs.
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the increased demand for office space
postal workers
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postal workers
sanitation worker
seasonal workers/employment etc
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seasonal jobs in the tourist industry
sex worker
shed jobs/workers/staff etc
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The bank continued to shed workers.
social worker
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
fellow
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Support teams work with employers and fellow workers in a training programme and are also on call if there are problems.
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Not least, the fact that you've deserted your fellow workers .
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For a number of years she patiently withstood the abuse of her employers and fellow workers , who ridiculed her religious habits.
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Their fellow worker Paul Sinclair, a 20-a-day man, takes the stairwell option.
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The problem occurs in the patient who has an occasional seizure, which alarms fellow workers and disrupts work activities.
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Above all the farm worker could establish his reputation as a skilled and knowledgeable craftsman among his fellow workers.
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Pray that the missionary may refuse to hear any accusations from Satan against his fellow workers and believers.
foreign
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London attracts foreign legion London is becoming the main choice of destination for foreign workers .
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Apply slightly tougher standards for employers who hire temporary foreign workers for specialty jobs in the high-tech industry and elsewhere.
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Five foreign aid workers were murdered and others came under fire.
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Cities compete for prime-pick foreign workers as they would for a foreign auto plant.
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New international links are planned to help foreign workers come and go.
hard
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Since then he has shown every sign of being a pragmatist, an adroit politician and a very hard worker .
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He is supposedly not the hardest worker ever.
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She was known to be very tough and a very hard worker .
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He made Mrs Timms look uninterested in her store, the Reliance Market, and she was a hard worker .
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He was a good, hard worker .
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Children who understand the importance of work tend to imitate their parents and become hard workers themselves.
manual
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The third high-risk group comprises manual workers without hobbies and interests, whose entire social contact has been based on their workplace.
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The equivalent figures for manual workers other than general labourers show a reverse pattern.
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Relatively few had any A-level passes and only one in seven were skilled manual workers .
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But no woman manual workers in the industry yet earn as much as any of the men.
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Manufacturing industry has declined, whilst service industries, which employ a lower proportion of manual workers , have expanded.
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Fifteen hundred manual workers will have to decide whether to cross picket lines tomorrow morning.
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For semi-skilled and unskilled manual workers , the proportion of members experiencing unemployment almost doubled: from 18 to 32 percent.
migrant
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When Anthony was a boy the family arrived in California as migrant workers picking grapes.
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Some say migrant workers knock on their doors asking for water and food.
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More than one-third of the students came from migrant worker families.
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Grievances were felt particularly strongly by migrant workers who bore the brunt of the hardship because they were almost completely unorganized.
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Lesser politicians had a chance to become migrant workers instead of just talking about them.
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A joint system of security for migrant workers had been introduced in 1958.
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They recognized that the protection and promotion of the rights of migrant workers have their human dimension.
old
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Thus for large numbers of older workers , poverty is experienced to the official pension ages.
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I see old skulls, old bones of workers .
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It is particularly important for older workers over the age of 50, but not confined to this group.
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So these older workers have been immune to big changes in work-related phenomena.
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Higher proportions of older unemployed workers experience long unemployment durations now than in the late 1970's.
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After all, the 27-year-\#old farm worker fully intended to return to work when his 30-minute lunch break was over.
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So, the first requirement is that older workers should be included in the drive for a more skilled workforce.
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The spring 1968 strikes mainly involved older , skilled workers .
other
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The comparison of results in groups D and E highlights the important assessment role of occupational therapists as cited by other workers .
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Variable patterns of formaldehyde exposure may well account for this inconsistency in relation to other workers in formaldehyde-based industries.
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Social workers and other primary care workers are well placed to identify people who have long-term social difficulties and poor coping resources.
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Miners in general worked fewer hours than other workers .
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This was just a warning. Other workers are copying them.
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At the beginning the immigrants' lack of experience and poor organization hampered mobilization, and so other workers struck first.
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One or two other workers made attempts at isolating the antibacterial substance from Penicillium during the 1930s.
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Yet other workers were employed in industry on a purely seasonal basis.
postal
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The five unions who called the indefinite strike said up to 80 percent of postal workers stayed away from work in some areas.
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Also patron of clerics, diplomats, messengers, postal workers , radio workers, telecommunications workers, and television workers.
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Workers in other public enterprises were also prevented from striking although this did not stop strikes by postal and railway workers .
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The deal will affect 140,000 postal and clerical workers .
skilled
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Policies of economic redistribution to the less well off met with resistance from skilled workers at a time of low economic growth.
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It is struggling to find enough skilled workers and key pieces of equipment and has had to put some customers on allocation.
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At present the work focuses on developing comparative lists of qualifications and job descriptions for occupations at the skilled worker level.
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In San Diego, the shortage of skilled workers is acute.
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Unlike casual labour, skilled workers were heir to a tradition of militancy.
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Foreign-born skilled workers have contributed to this declining wage, as well.
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As a result, in many countries, the wage gap between lowly and highly skilled workers has widened sharply.
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Too many skilled workers for too few skilled jobs are driving down salaries.
social
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Our doctors and nurses need far more counselling in this area, as do our social workers and priests.
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The women are social workers , reporters, filmmakers, lawyers, counselors, activists and nurses.
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Again, applications may be made by the nearest relative or an approved social worker and two medical recommendations are required.
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The groups raise money and distribute it to help those in need, mainly through social workers .
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The social worker discussed with Enid the possibility of planning such events into her week.
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These social workers were based in the borough's Special Services Team.
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I got a social worker and she suggested I get a bus pass, so I could get to town.
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The jury heard how a social worker was horrifically knifed to death on a late-night train.
unskilled
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Professional men, for example, see half as many friends again as unskilled workers .
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As they close down, they lay off more unskilled than skilled workers , since that is what they employ.
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Semi-skilled and unskilled workers were more willing to relocate than management and professional staff.
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As a result, when import-competing industries contract, they do not in fact lay off proportionally more unskilled than skilled workers .
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This was inpart due to the emergence of New Unionism which sought to organize unskilled workers .
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At about the same time, in 1884, the trade union movement began to reach poorer, unskilled workers .
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Are they both unskilled workers or is she in a higher class than her husband?
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For low-skilled or unskilled workers , Reich notes, technology is taking away jobs.
white
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The party and its leaders were defended neither by white nor blue-collar workers nor kolkhoz farmers.
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Negro and white civil rights workers .
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I counted only six white workers in the factory, half of which seemed to be of below average intelligence.
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About half the 6,000 white collar workers are likely to be made redundant in response to the shrinking market for coal.
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Almost thirty percent of the the population are employers, managers or white collar workers with just under six percent unskilled labourers.
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In 1975-7, 9 percent of young white workers had been unemployed during a twelve-month period.
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The report demonstrated that the 1980s austerity measures had disproportionately affected blue collar workers in comparison with white collar workers.
young
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Early retirement had also long been advocated as a means of cutting unemployment and of encouraging the promotion of younger workers .
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He describes clusters of young workers dressed in white lab coats learning about the latest mechanical instrument introduced in the plant.
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Mature workers have a breadth of experience lacking in younger workers.
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But the Act made no specific reference to special provision for young workers .
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The system is overwhelmed by too many retirees and not enough younger workers to pay for their benefits.
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Michael Perrin, a young research worker who had just returned to Winnington from Amsterdam took his place.
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Employers in the service industry who check grades before hiring young workers have a more productive workforce.
■ NOUN
aid
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Now aid workers are trying to ensure the children's own health and welfare.
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The aid workers are confined to their compounds and an evacuation from Kisangani is now likely.
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As a volunteer aid worker I was a failure.
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Diplomats and aid workers say they believe the rebels may take Kisangani within days.
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Five foreign aid workers were murdered and others came under fire.
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Few foreign aid workers have dared to venture into Helmund province.
care
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Hazards associated with heating and walking are examples of matters to which care workers must attend.
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Maritza started to work with the foster care workers to get her children back.
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The revised guidelines are expected to avoid giving care workers specific advice on how to physically restrain absconders.
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Health care workers should have a tuberculin skin test at least every two years.
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These wider changes add to the need to reassess the working relations of the central health care workers - doctors and nurses.
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Further information: Recruiting and employing a personal care worker by M Dunne.
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It hasn't been easy. CARE workers on the ground are constantly shadowed by armed guards.
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The care of stroke patients involves a plethora of different health and social care workers .
construction
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Consequently, the fall in demand for building materials and construction workers will generate downward multiplier effects on other types of investment.
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Rodia, an untrained construction worker and a free-thinking anarchist, died in 1965.
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He defends prevailing wage laws for skilled construction workers and supports increasing the minimum wage.
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A protest march of an estimated 1,000 construction workers took place on April 7 in Lima.
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They built into the cliffs. Construction workers use scaffolds today to build multiple-story apartments.
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A construction worker in the year 2084 is haunted by recurring dreams of a previous existence on Mars.
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I have a blue-tinged vocabulary that could make a construction worker blush.
factory
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A glossy magazine designed to satisfy the CEOs ego may go wide of the mark with the factory workers .
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Money is tight; pensioners, the army and factory workers have not been paid.
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Apart from their costumes and the props that they carried, they might have been factory workers anywhere.
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Elsewhere, factory workers toiled twelve hours a day, six days a week, and their hollow-eyed children worked with them.
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Some have more factory workers and others have more civil servants, and so on.
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The factory worker no longer manipulates the sheet of steel; he manipulates the data about the steel.
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All the cars that turn up are made in sheds in the evening by postmen and factory workers .
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Where are the sons of longshoremen and black factory workers from the South?
farm
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He says the country is not facing a shortage of farm workers , according to his spokesman Allen Kay.
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Protest was immediate and desperate from the wives of farm workers and miners.
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They therefore attracted labour without any hindrance, providing jerry-built, damp and insanitary hovels for letting to local farm workers .
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And profitable enough to employ 6 farm workers .
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It was being driven towards Weatherbury by two farm workers , who had not noticed Gabriel.
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For many farm workers the major problem introduced by mechanization has been an increase in the loneliness of the job.
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Instead the newcomers tend to evaluate the farm worker and the other villagers on the basis of urban criteria for allocating prestige.
health
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All however see the link between the local health situation and the plight of health workers and the national and international situation.
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She has been diagnosed with tuberculosis, kidney problems and malnutrition, health workers say.
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Some see this as racism on the part of health workers .
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There was a shortage of trained health workers in all categories.
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We talked to health workers and campesinos all over the country.
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But after the health workers returned to Kathmandu little changed.
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Understandably, health workers and the public are confused.
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Much of this information can be acquired by health workers , supervisors and managers in their work.
office
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The man was only an office worker after all.
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Today, the pension plan for the owner and ten office workers is in serious trouble.
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Lisa would presumably encourage office workers to produce documents blending text and graphics.
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Teachers, doctors and office workers are no longer being paid.
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It pays the salaries of hundreds of thousands of office workers and soldiers.
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In the present case a post office worker sustained an injury on his left shin.
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You had to see it, this office building full of office workers , bureaucrats, rising in the air.
research
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The Avon Papers are now available for study by research workers on application to the University Library.
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There are plenty of good recent reviews aimed at research workers covering at least some of the issues I was starting to address.
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Michael Perrin, a young research worker who had just returned to Winnington from Amsterdam took his place.
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And without the new grant for golden hellos the World would have lost its research workers .
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First, research workers must be absolutely sure they know what the statistics are about.
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At this stage, then, the general position has been stated as to how research workers should approach their task.
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Unlike Fleming, Florey found the atmosphere of a London teaching hospital uncongenial and the conflicts between clinicians and research workers discouraging.
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These details then lead the research worker on to the next step, which is that of drawing the threads together.
■ VERB
employ
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And profitable enough to employ 6 farm workers .
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Two months ago, his company opened a Cambridge office that employs seven workers .
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If the weekly wage were £15, however, the firm would employ four workers .
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After starting with a handful, the factory now employs 2, 800 workers .
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The business will employ 36 workers at first with plans to expand.
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The combined company would employ 25, 000 workers in 50 countries.
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Heather Wilkinson employs a lot of workers and not only waitresses.
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The industry employs 769, 000 workers in five counties.
hire
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Employers who hire a worker must contact the federal government, which checks to ensure that the new bloke has his papers.
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What if they hire all their campaign workers ?
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It also spent too much on monthly advertising and hired too many workers at high salaries, analysts said.
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Giant abruptly decided not to hire the temporary replacement workers .
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Construction managers determine the labor requirements and, in some cases, supervise or monitor the hiring and dismissal of workers .
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An executive order to revoke federal contracts of businesses that hire illegal workers .
lay
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This is involuntary and undesirable and many firms will react to it by reducing output and laying off workers .
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The weak domestic manufacturing sector is reeling too: 150 factories closed last year, laying off 30,000 workers .
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And companies that lay off workers would have to pay two months of severance for every year of service.
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The resulting fall in demand also forced other companies to trim back production and lay off workers .
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Where demand was shrinking, firms would close down or lay off workers and contract operations.
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In recent months the car industry has laid off thousands of workers and put many more on short time.
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E canceled plans to lay off 800 workers .
pay
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Class 1 contributions are paid by workers in employment and are deducted from their pay at the statutory rates.
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Serigraph also pays workers a cross-training bonus of 25 an hour if they learn how to operate a new piece of equipment.
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Recently the Arbroath engineering firm Giddings and Lewis paid off 90 workers .
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Government and industry are behind by some $ 4 billion in paying workers , from coal miners to teachers.
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In fact pensions are not paid by workers , but from the economy as a whole.
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Often, the government would do better just to pay displaced workers to stay home rather than artificially keep the business afloat.
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Employers escape paying national-insurance contributions for workers on less than £56 a week.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
ancillary workers/staff etc
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Ancillary staff All educational establishments are dependent for their day-to-day running on the ancillary staff.
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Could parents force a local authority to keep schools open during a strike of ancillary workers?
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It is the governors, too, who manage the teaching and ancillary staff.
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No hospital can function well without receptionists, cleaners, administrators, porters and all the other ancillary staff.
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Often the only staff who live within the school's catchment area are the caretaker and the ancillary workers.
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The providers of domestic, portering and ward ancillary staff are also subjected to pressure from staff for the peak-holiday periods.
fellow workers/students/countrymen etc
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As the permanent workplace becomes a shifting work space, daily face-to-face contact with fellow workers is increasingly sporadic.
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Host a quiz night for your fellow students.
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Not all of my fellow students were as pleased with me, though.
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Religion may affect employees' attitudes to their jobs and their relationships with expatriates and fellow countrymen.
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She and her fellow students were told that their mission was to free the peasants from feudalism.
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Stallabrass seems alienated from the labour of his fellow workers.
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To help you relate to your fellow students. 2.
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Workshops are an ideal opportunity to meet tutors and exchange ideas with fellow students.
pink-collar jobs/workers/industries etc
sb is a fast worker
the mass of people/the population/workers etc
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For the mass of the population, indeed, the shift of interest arguably went in the other direction.
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Such feelings developed very much within the context of the lived experience of the mass of the population.
up the workers!/up the reds! etc
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Ambulance workers threatened to refuse all calls for twenty-four hours on New Year's Eve.
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Despite the high unemployment rate, there is a shortage of skilled workers in some sectors.
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The report showed that blue collar workers lost ten days a year due to ill health, compared with five days for white collar workers.
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The report shows that male manual workers earn twice as much as female workers.
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There is increasing social mobility among senior white collar workers, who are able to move quite rapidly between organizations.
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Tony was a retired post-office worker .
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We need better communication between the management and the workers.
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We need more workers around here.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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About half the 6,000 white collar workers are likely to be made redundant in response to the shrinking market for coal.
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He says the country is not facing a shortage of farm workers, according to his spokesman Allen Kay.
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Many of the new workers are in training and should start fielding calls by late next week, she said.
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This pattern is confirmed by analyses of the process underlying the development of class consciousness among workers.
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Two new workers with similar performance records were brought in to replace them.