Usually means: Clergy engaging in secular employment.
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  1. worker-priest: Merriam-Webster
  2. worker-priest: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  3. worker-priest, worker-priest: Collins English Dictionary
  4. worker-priest: Infoplease Dictionary
  5. worker-priest: Dictionary.com
  6. Worker-Priest, Worker-priest: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  7. worker-priest: TheFreeDictionary.com
  8. worker-priest: Wiktionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (worker-priest)

noun:  (historical, Christianity) A priest who took up manual labour to experience the everyday life of the working class, and gain the trust of the working class.

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