millworker
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2.9
- noun
- /ˈmɪlˌwɜrkər/
:
trabajador de molino
- Several millworkers operate heavy machinery to process the raw materials for the factory.
Examples
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He had been a millworker and a carpenter on the side, Mrs. Beaufort, the daytime administrator, said, and his wife had worked in the mill too until she died, and his son until the son had been killed in a machine accident.
Fiction book (1991) -
She had bought that wooden flying shuttle, after all, and though she had read about millworkers in college -- the long hours, the accidents, the racket of the power looms -- how much did she really think about it?
Fiction book (1995) -
The Hi-Q struggle is indicative of what all of Snohomish County is going through with the loss of a major employer and the loss of the millworkers' charitable donations.
Blog text (4) -
These rights are defined by property principles precisely as are the town lots of the Methodist Church in Wausau, the real estate of the multinational International Business Machines, the fields of a hunting club in Georgia, and the home of a millworker in Rhinelander, Wisconsin.
Academic text (1993) -
During the busy season, many millworkers work overtime to meet production demands.
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The local union supports the rights of millworkers, advocating for safer work conditions.
Synonyms
23
1.3
A person who works in a factory doing physical work on machines and assembly lines
18
4.9
A skilled person who operates and repairs machines to make metal parts
11
3.2
A person who makes steel in a factory
5
3.1
A person who works in a factory making cars or trucks
4
3.8
A person who works in a mill to grind grain into flour
2
3.5
A person who makes things from metal, often by hammering or welding
1
3.5
A person who makes clothes in a factory or workshop
1
7.6
A person who uses a machine to press metal into shapes
A person who works in a mill or factory operating machines
A girl or young woman who works in a factory making cloth
A person who runs machines that spin thread in a cloth factory
A person who uses a sewing machine to join cloth in a factory or workshop
A person who uses a saw in a sawmill or when cutting trees
A person who makes coins by stamping them at a mint
A person who makes and shapes things from iron
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word millworker comes from the simple parts mill, a place where people 'grind' or shape materials, and worker, 'a person who works'. So a millworker is someone who runs the machines in a mill or factory to process or shape materials.