picker
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1.4
- noun
- /ˈpɪkər/
:
recolector
- I think she worked as an apple picker for a while.
- garbage pickers
- cotton pickers
- peyote pickers
Even the best stock pickers don't have crystal balls, meaning that we don't know the future.
- Even the best stock pickers don't have crystal balls, meaning that we don't know the future.
- I first got going to a A and I my first ever job and it was a, it was a litter picker, a street sweeper in Kingston upon Thames, right?
- And I think we have a great team of stock pickers, value oriented stocks, you know, I mean, people think, hey, the stock market is a great investment.
- vendors, home base workers, Craftsman, agriculture workers, salt farmers, rack pickers, cart pullers.
- And so becoming a better picker, I think, I think you do have to get socially adept.
Examples
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For instance, individual tea pickers work to a rhythm that is comfortable for them.
Academic text (1995) -
The cotton picker carefully gathered the ripe bolls from the plants.
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I was the best cotton picker he had.
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Instead, they sent the money... to the unemployed cotton pickers in Mississippi.
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Dom, the foreman, tells the pickers that tonight will be a "light night."
Fiction book (1999) -
Rose Rose is sitting at the picnic table when the pickers arrive for lunch, almost simultaneously with Homer.
Fiction book (1999) -
Homer looks toward the pickers sitting on the flatbed when he hears the tractor start.
Fiction book (1999) -
At the end of the workday, when it finally arrives, the pickers are glad for the imminence of twilight.
Fiction book (1999) -
At 7:00 A.M., a pink light hovers over Icicle Ridge, and the pickers set their ladders in the grass.
Fiction book (1999) -
During the harvest season, the skilled pickers worked long hours in the fields.
Synonyms
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3.2
A person who collects wild plants and berries for a living
9
2.0
A person or machine that collects crops when they are ready
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5.5
A person who cuts and gathers crops at harvest, often by hand
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5.6
A person or machine that pulls things off, like feathers
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8.4
A person who collects leftover grain from fields after harvest
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Etymology
The word picker comes from the verb pick 'to take or choose' and the ending -er which means 'someone who does something', as in teacher or worker. So a picker is a person who gathers or selects things, especially fruit.