GANGMASTER meaning: Overseer of workers, often exploitative - OneLook

Usually means: Overseer of workers, often exploitative.

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gangmaster: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
gangmaster: Collins English Dictionary
gangmaster: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
gangmaster: Wiktionary
Gangmaster (film), Gangmaster: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
gangmaster: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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▸ noun: a person who employs, and directs the labour of, temporary or migratory labourers, especially for seasonal agricultural work

Similar:

migrant worker, master, workmaster, work-master, taskmaster, ganger, jobmaster, padrone, job master, wagonmaster, more...

Opposite:

individual employer, solo employer

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Similar:

migrant worker, master, workmaster, work-master, taskmaster, ganger, jobmaster, padrone, job master, wagonmaster, more...

Opposite:

individual employer, solo employer

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