garment worker
1
2.6
- noun
- /ˈɡɑːrmənt ˈwɜrkər/
:
trabajador de la confección
- Unlike the Portuguese women, the majority of Dominican women in New York are garment workers.
- Italian-American garment workers
- American garment workers
- garment workers in New York
However, can the garment workers in Bangladesh now live from their jobs?
- However, can the garment workers in Bangladesh now live from their jobs?
- OK, you know for a fact that garment workers the world over do not get paid enough.
Examples
-
Papa Joe lived an ordinary life as a garment worker in New York City.
Fiction book (2002) -
In its heyday, Haiti's assembly sector employed up to sixty thousand workers, the largest segment being garment workers.
Academic text (1998) -
However, can the garment workers in Bangladesh now live from their jobs?
-
His father was a garment worker who spoke more Yiddish than English.
Academic text (2009) -
More than 160,000 workers are employed, two-thirds of them as garment workers.
Academic text (1998) -
It's a universal truth that garment workers and shoemakers don't want their kids to grow up to be garment workers, and an education can ensure that.
Blog text (29) -
A 1987 study found that three-quarters of all female garment workers were unable to meet their basic weekly expenses on the wages they received (Dunn 1987).
Academic text (1998) -
Italian-American garment workers had a tradition of labor militancy that dated back at least to the early 1920s, when many of them joined the struggle for unionization in Philadelphia's clothing industry.
Academic text (1996) -
There are 30 million to 40 million garment workers in the world.
-
Today, thousands of garment workers protested poor conditions and called for the building's owners to be punished.
Synonyms
88
2.3
A person who makes or fixes clothes so they fit
25
3.6
A woman who sews clothes for a living
9
7.2
A person who makes and repairs clothes using needle and thread or a sewing machine
9
3.5
A person who makes dresses and other women's clothes to order
7
5.4
A person who alters clothes to make them the right size for someone
3
2.3
A person who makes clothes or fabric from yarn using needles
1
7.5
A person who folds and sews the edges of clothes
1
3.4
A person who makes shirts to fit each customer
A person who makes clothes by sewing
A person who uses a sewing machine to join cloth in a factory or workshop
A person who sews or fixes clothes for a living
A person who makes and alters clothes
A man who designs and makes clothes for women like dresses
A person who prepares cloth pieces to sew into clothes
A person or machine that sews pieces of material together
A person who makes or repairs long outer clothes, often using cloth and fur
How Skilled
1
2.6
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly and transparently derived from combining 'garment' (an article of clothing) with 'worker' (a person employed to do work), yielding 'a person who works with or makes garments.' This noun+noun compound pattern is common and predictable across languages, so a B1 learner who knows the constituents would readily infer the meaning.
Etymology
Garment worker comes from the simple idea of garment, a piece of clothing, and worker, a person who does a job. So, it means 'a person who makes clothes'.