miner
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- noun
- /ˈmaɪnər/
:
minero
- The miner carefully extracted coal from deep within the mountain.
- coal miners
- underground miners
- miners at the mine
Solar heating is today sending coal miners into other lines of work.
- Solar heating is today sending coal miners into other lines of work.
- Private aircraft dropped makeshift gas and nail bombs on the advancing miners but all missed their targets.
- The late Polish miner Tadius Slovakovsky?
- And I was so taken by so many of the the miners and the pride they had and what they did.
- And I, I, I compared it to a similar situation with Margaret Thatcher and the miners.
- But then there's a separate group of Earthlings that go out to the Kuiper Belt and they're miners.
- And the Cornish miners, you know, went from being extremely wealthy to being not that wealthy.
- What heavy time is, is the time that you're no longer weightless from, you know, being a miner out there in space, in your rig, mining asteroids.
- This is this is a collab we did with the magic miners, who are actual prospectors and they own the claim to Crystal Mountain.
- How was that Thatcher used it for after the miners that she quashed the unions?
- So I'll put on our miners cap here and then drill down on this.
Examples
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As the trappers park their jeep, some miners greet them, shouting over the roar of the water.
Fiction book (1993) -
The most important strike of this period was the 1946 miners' strike involving 70,000 miners.
Academic text (1990) -
And I was so taken by so many of the the miners and the pride they had and what they did.
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By the next morning, five miners were dead.
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My dad was a coal miner and mom stayed at home.
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The miners are asking for a 35 percent increase in wages.
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The orders for railway workers and miners followed closely on the heels of those for farm workers.
Academic text (1991) -
It's trying to make it less mercury dependent and less toxic both for the miners and for the environment.
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The work patterns indicated a high turnover among the miners and an open, democratic society.
Academic text (1992) -
Matthew Busby was born to the pit country of Lanarkshire, son of an Orbiston miner.
Synonyms
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A person who works in a mine to take out coal or minerals
Compounds
- Specialized
A person who removes topsoil and rock with large machines to get coal or minerals
How Experienced
- Specialized
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Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word miner comes from mine, a place where people dig for coal or metal, and the ending -er meaning 'one who'. So a miner is 'one who digs' into the earth to take out useful materials.