lobster worker
- noun
- /ˈlɑːbstər ˈwɜːrkər/
:
pescador de langostas
- As a lobster worker, she spends long hours at sea during the summer season.
Examples
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Many coastal towns rely on lobster workers for their main source of income.
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The life of a lobster worker can be both challenging and rewarding.
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The lobster worker returned from the sea.
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Many lobster workers rely on the fishing season.
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As a lobster worker, she spends long hours at sea during the summer season.
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Many coastal towns rely on lobster workers for their main source of income.
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The life of a lobster worker is often filled with excitement and hard work.
Synonyms
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5.1
A person who catches lobsters for a living
A woman who catches lobsters
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning of 'lobster worker' is directly compositional from 'lobster' (the animal) + 'worker' (a person employed to do work), so a learner can infer it refers to someone who works with or catches lobsters. This noun+worker occupational formation is a regular, cross-linguistically common compounding pattern in English, making it easily understandable to a B1 learner who knows the constituents.
Etymology
Lobster worker comes from the simple image of a person on a small boat pulling up lobster traps from the sea. A lobster is the shellfish and a worker is someone doing the job, so the phrase means 'a person whose job is to catch lobsters'.