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A menial blue-collar job often performed by migrants.
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(Nigeria) labourer (manual worker)
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Someone who works for a charitable organisation devoted to helping others, especially one who works internationally or in conflict zones.
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(obsolete, derogatory) A shopkeeper.
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(historical) A craftsman who has knowledge of a manufacturing secret (specifically in the area of porcelain manufacturing).
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(This entry is a translation hub.) A person who buys and sells works of art
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(obsolete) A man skilled in an art or in arts.
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Someone who works as an assembly line worker in an automobile assembly plant.
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One who babyproofs a dwelling.
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An employee of a hotel who carries a guest's luggage and runs errands.
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(rare) One who mans a booth, such as at a fair or (historically) a Thing.
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(historical) A laborer living in a bothy.
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(trade) Master artisan, who receives his instructions from the architect, and employs workers.
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An employee working on a physical construction site.
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(less common) Alternative form of building worker [An employee working on a physical construction site.]
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Alternative spelling of businessman [A man in business, one who works at a commercial institution.]
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Rare spelling of camera worker. [Somebody who operates a camera.]
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(figuratively, obsolete) Synonym of purveyor: any provider of anything.
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(obsolete) A dealer or merchant, especially an itinerant one.
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A man who does the work of a charwoman.
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A worker at a cokeworks.
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An employee working on a physical construction site.
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An unskilled Asian worker, usually of Chinese or Indian descent; a labourer; a porter. Coolies were frequently transported to other countries in the 19th and early 20th centuries as indentured labourers.
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(obsolete) A chapman; a dealer; a merchant.
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Alternative form of cornerman [(boxing) A coach, trainer or other assistant who attends to a boxer between rounds.]
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A job or occupation carried out at home or on a part-time basis.
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A person who makes such purchases.
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(in Scotland and northern English dialects) A day laborer.
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A labourer who works during the day.
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A vendor of discount goods.
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A practitioner of do it yourself.
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Alternative form of dutyman [(UK, military) A fully trained soldier who has a specific role.]
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a worker considered necessary for the community at large; especially first responders, other medical, education and transport personnel.
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One who works in a factory.
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A person hired to work on the farm or in the agricultural industry.
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(chiefly US) An outdoor worker on a farm, plantation, or ranch.
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A slave whose duties primarily entail working in a field, such as in agriculture, as opposed to a house slave.
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An employee who works in the field rather than at at office; a field agent.
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A person who does fieldwork.
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Alternative form of flea-marketer [Someone who sells items at flea markets; someone who flea-markets.]
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An employee in a large shop (especially a department store) who supervises sales staff and assists customers.
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A junior worker on an oil rig, responsible for general labour and maintenance, usually more specialized tasks than those of a leasehand.
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A bookmaker's assistant.
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A floorman or floorwoman in a casino.
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Alternative form of floor-walker [An employee in a large shop (especially a department store) who supervises sales staff and assists customers.]
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A laborer or workman who makes formwork.
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Alternative form of frontiersman [A person who lives on the borders of a country, or in a wild and undeveloped area on the fringes of civilization.]
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A person who lives on the borders of a country, or in a wild and undeveloped area on the fringes of civilization.
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(East Africa) A person who repairs and maintains things; mechanic, repairer.
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An employee who has the role of protecting wildlife.
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A male mechanic who works in a garage.
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A French car mechanic or garage worker.
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(colloquial) A worker for a company that supplies gas (in the sense of the gaseous fuel), especially one who visits premises to read the meter, test appliances etc.
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(US, military, slang, historical) A survival radio transmitter carried by aircraft on over-water operations.
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(informal) A worker who runs errands; an errand boy.
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(printing, archaic) An additional worker taken on at busy times.
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The role or status of grocer.
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(Ireland, colloquial) The Restrictive Practices (Groceries) Order 1987, a law that (until revoked in 2006) prohibited below-cost selling.
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A person who works on the ground, as opposed to an aviator, etc.
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A person who proceeds by guesswork.
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A male member of a guild.
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(South Africa) An unskilled assistant to an artisan.
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(archaic, rare) A (male) servant; manservant
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One who carries out handwork, working by hand rather than using a machine.
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A man who works with his hands; one who carries out handwork.
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(informal) A person who does small tasks and odd jobs
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Alternative form of handyman's special [(realty, advertising, euphemistic) A house that needs considerable renovation and whose owner will only be satisfied if he is a handyman with considerable spare time.]
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(realty, advertising, euphemistic) A house that needs considerable renovation and whose owner will only be satisfied if he is a handyman with considerable spare time.
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(uncommon) A handyman or handywoman.
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A food service worker in a low-end establishment.
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A waiter who has a supervisory position over the other wait staff; chief waiter.
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One who performs mental or intellectual labour.
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Those who drudge, or are made to work hard; those who do menial or servile work at the behest of others; physical labourers.
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A person skilled at hideworking.
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(US, slang) A union organizer; later especially of the International Workers of the World.
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(archaic) One who works by the job (i.e. paid per individual piece of work) and/or recruits other people for such work.
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(US) Someone who is employed in a regular job
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A competent but undistinguished tradesman, especially one who works, and is paid by the day.
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(nonstandard, rare) A journeyman or journeywoman.
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A journeyman (tradesman who has served an apprenticeship and is employed by a master tradesman).
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(UK) A worker in any industry who is considered indispensable and expected not to strike.
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(American spelling) One who uses body strength instead of intellectual power to earn a wage, usually hourly.
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A lawyer specialising in labour law
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Britain standard spelling of laborer.
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(originally US) A person hired to carry out errands or (often) menial tasks, frequently requiring travel from place to place; an errand boy or errand girl, a runner.
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A worker on a production line.
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The keeper of a lodge (at the entrance to a larger property)
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(informal) An individual trader who sells goods to foreign tourists in public places.
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A person, usually male, who has duties or skills associated with a specified thing. (Used as the last element of a compound.)
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(American spelling) Work done by hand or using basic tools rather than by machines; usually physically demanding but (sometimes derogatory) unskilled labor.
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One who performs manual labor
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(British spelling, Canada) Alternative spelling of manual labor: physically demanding work done by hand. [(American spelling) Work done by hand or using basic tools rather than by machines; usually physically demanding but (sometimes derogatory) unskilled labor.]
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Alternative form of manual laborer [One who performs manual labor]
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Synonym of manual labor.
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Someone who shops at a market.
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A man who sells goods in a market.
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(colloquial, sometimes derogatory) An employee at a low-paying, entry-level job.
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(historical, colloquial) A lodger who regularly left his or her accommodation to dine elsewhere, rather than eating there.
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(now chiefly historical) A manual worker; a labourer or artisan.
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(now rare) Characteristic of someone who does manual labour for a living; coarse, vulgar.
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Obsolete spelling of mechanic [(now chiefly historical) A manual worker; a labourer or artisan.]
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Obsolete spelling of mechanic [(now chiefly historical) A manual worker; a labourer or artisan.]
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(informal, sometimes derogatory) Someone who is noted for a stated type of activity or behaviour.
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A male worker in a mint, producing coins.
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Alternative form of minute man [(historical) During the American War for Independence, a citizen-soldier who would fight for the Patriots at a minute's notice.]
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Alternative spelling of night watchman [(historical) Prior to police forces, a person appointed by a town or city to walk the streets at night and guard the burghers from felons and robbers.]
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A nightwatchman; a guard who works at night.
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One who performs odd jobs; a handyperson.
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(dated) One who takes away work to do at home.
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A French labourer or manual worker.
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(colloquial, archaic) A clerk; a lowly office worker.
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(in a compound noun or noun phrase) A worker in a specified function or specialty.
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A worker who is paid according to the number of units of work produced.
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A salesman, especially one who aggressively markets wares from a street stall, or a carnival or side show act.
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(UK politics, derogatory) One appointed to an office, especially in government, as a reward for political or other support; an appointee, a yes-man.
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(UK) A childcarer involved in playwork.
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Synonym of plumber's helper
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A person employed to press or draw with dies or presses.
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A person who works in the printing industry (especially in a relatively unskilled occupation)
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An unskilled or semiskilled worker who is responsible for running processing machinery in a factory.
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(theater) A man responsible for looking after the props in a theater
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(business) A wholesaler who merchandises goods on racks in retail shops.
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A man whose job is to repair things
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Someone who repairs; a repairman or repairwoman.
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Alternative form of rewriteman [(journalism) A newspaper reporter who crafts stories from information reported by others, such as legmen.]
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One who carries out ropework.
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A worker who makes rounds, especially in order to deliver goods.
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A worker who makes rounds, especially in order to deliver goods.
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An employee, a worker; now especially a Japanese white-collar worker who works long hours and has an insignificant position within the corporate hierarchy.
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A woman whose occupation it is to sell things.
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(dated) The proprietor of a saloon.
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(obsolete) A seller of sand.
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(obsolete) One who assays.
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Someone who sells; a vendor; a clerk.
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Alternative form of shade tree mechanic [(automotive) A person who repairs cars as a hobby.]
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Someone who sells shirts
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An employee in a shop, a shopkeeper.
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Alternative spelling of shopkeeper [A trader who sells goods in a shop, or by retail, in distinction from one who sells by wholesale, or sells door to door.]
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alternative form of shopowner [Someone who owns a shop.]
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A local member of a trade union elected to represent his fellow workers in discussions with the management at a workplace.
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(Britain) A retail store floor supervisor.
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One who shops excessively; a shopping addict.
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Someone who goes to a shop to make purchases.
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(informal) A shopkeeper.
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A trader who sells goods in a shop, or by retail, in distinction from one who sells by wholesale, or sells door to door.
adj
(rare) Characteristic of a shopkeeper.
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A woman who works in a shop.
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The proprietor, manager, or operator of a small store.
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Shopkeepers as a social class.
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Alternative form of shopaholic [One who shops excessively; a shopping addict.]
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Someone who owns a shop.
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(informal) A shopkeeper.
adj
(dated) Having the appearance or qualities of a shopkeeper.
adj
(dated) Inclined to talk shop; full of jargon.
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(Britain) Alternative form of shop-walker [(Britain) A retail store floor supervisor.]
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A person who works in a shop; a shop assistant
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(medicine, slang, derogatory) An intern who lets too many non-serious cases into the emergency room.
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A gray-collar worker; someone who does skilled technical work.
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Alternative form of slave-driver [An overseer of slaves at work; a person who puts slaves to work.]
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Rare spelling of slave trader. [A trader who buys and sells slaves.]
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Alternative form of spade man [A man who works with a spade.]
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Alternative form of spadeworker [One who does spadework, now especially in the figurative sense of preparatory work.]
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One who does spadework, now especially in the figurative sense of preparatory work.
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A worker who stacks the shelves in a supermarket.
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A member of the North American trade union United Steelworkers.
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(chiefly Britain, trading) A stock exchange worker who deals only with brokers.
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A person who works in a stockroom.
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A person who handles (receives, sends, records &c) stock (goods)
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One who shops at the store; a person who shops frequently.
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One who runs a shop, either the owner or manager.
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The work of a storekeeper, looking after a shop.
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A person who owns a store (or shop); a shopowner.
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A person who works in a store.
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A person who sells things in the street rather than from premises.
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One who operates a supermarket.
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(Scotland, historical) A labourer who receives wages in kind.
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(obsolete, UK, law) An officer of the forest who had the care of vert and venison by night.
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The superintendent of a street market.
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A counter in a shop or business at which sales are made only to customers practising a particular trade, and not intended for sales to retail customers.
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People employed in trade; tradesmen and tradeswomen.
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(historical) A shop where goods can be traded; a trading post.
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A skilled manual worker (implied male).
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A skilled manual worker.
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The work of one who practises a trade (an occupation in the secondary sector).
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(archaic) Alternative form of truchman [(archaic) An interpreter.]
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One who does business in the way of barter or exchange.
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A person who does small tasks as part of the Amazon Mechanical Turk service.
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A laborer who carries out tut-work.
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A laborer who carries out tut-work.
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(historical) A shock worker; a super-productive worker in the Soviet Union and the other countries from the Soviet Bloc.
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A hotel employee performing such duties for guests.
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A person or a company that vends or sells.
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(American spelling) Somebody who works for a wage.
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Commonwealth standard spelling of wage laborer.
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(obsolete) A worker who is paid an hourly or daily wage, rather than by the piece or job
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Alternative form of wageman [(obsolete) A worker who is paid an hourly or daily wage, rather than by the piece or job]
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A worker who earns a wage.
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(US, Canada) Alternative form of waitstaff. [(US, Canada) Collectively, staff employed to wait at tables in a restaurant.]
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(rare) One who is waiting for service.
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Someone who waits for somebody or something; a person who is waiting.
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(rare) The work of a waiter, attending on somebody.
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(nonstandard, rare) A waiter or waitress.
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Someone who does war work.
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Alternative form of war worker [Someone who does war work.]
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A person who manages, or works in, a warehouse.
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Alternative form of war worker [Someone who does war work.]
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(obsolete, UK) A person who repairs and maintains watches.
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(West Africa) A night watchman.
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(operations, logistics) A warehouse worker who performs only certain specific tasks, often replenishment.
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A worker in the wax industry.
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(Britain, informal) A stereotypical tradesman or handyman who drives a white van.
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A person whose job is to clean windows.
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A person who window-shops.
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A participant in workamping.
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A person who performs labor for a living, especially manual labor.
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People who perform manual labour.
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A group of individuals assigned to, or engaged in, a common task, especially a group of convicts.
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A workman or laborer; a hand.
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(New Zealand, Australia) A group of volunteers doing charitable work.
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(originally US, informal) An ordinary person who works in a non-management position, especially one who works for wages rather than a salary.
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A man who works in exchange for payment, especially one that does manual labour.
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A woman who works in exchange for payment, especially one who does manual labour
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One who is employed or who works; worker.
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A man who labours for wages.
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(Canada, US) A laborer hired to do outdoor work.
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A general laborer in a yard.
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Someone employed for the period of one year.
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(US) A dependable, diligent, or loyal worker or someone who does a great service.
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