line worker
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2.6
- noun
- /laɪn ˈwɜrkər/
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trabajador de línea
- Eighty percent, or 2,000, of these employees are hourly line workers who manufacture top-mount refrigerators and 50-pound icemakers.
- assembly line workers
- front-line workers
- production line workers
Examples
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Beth DeSenza was a production line worker at a large garment factory just outside the city.
Fiction book (1995) -
Every person at the plant, from front line workers to the plant manager, received the same bonus amount.
Academic text (2003) -
You are not really talking about the value added by line workers here.
Blog text (10) -
I do not know if your statistics are based on line worker salaries or executive salaries.
Academic text (1996) -
One group of students formed an assembly line, with each line worker making only one part of the doughnut.
Academic text (1992) -
I think Donner has some openings for assembly line workers.
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Moore: Assembly-line workers here earn over $65,000 a year, more than three times the pay for a starting pilot at American Eagle.
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In short, despite China's dramatic export growth, the benefits have not trickled down to the assembly-line workers who make the exported goods.
Academic text (2002) -
The study included both hourly and salaried employees—assembly line workers, administrative clerks, technicians, engineers, as well as managers.
Academic text (2000) -
Beth DeSenza was a line worker at a large garment factory just outside the city.
Synonyms
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A person who works in a factory doing physical work on machines and assembly lines
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3.0
A person who does hard work using their hands
People who work directly in a company's main operations, like factory or sales staff
How Skilled
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'an employee who works on an assembly line' is directly compositional from 'line' (a row/assembly line) + 'worker' (a person who works), so a B1 learner who knows both words can readily infer someone who works on a production line. This noun–noun compound follows a common cross-linguistic pattern for occupational labels and is therefore transparent.
Etymology
The noun line worker comes from the image of a worker standing at a line in a factory, doing the same task again and again as items move past. So, it means 'an employee who works on an assembly line'.