garment-worker
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- noun
- /ˈɡɑrmənt ˈwɜrkər/
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trabajadora de la confección
- Alex Tom assisted a group of anxious garment workers in filling out employment forms at the center.
- women garment-workers
Examples
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After all, a New York judge in 1909 told striking garment workers that "You are on strike against God."
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Between September 2008 and early 2009, around 50,000 garment workers, or 17 percent of the total, were reported to have lost their jobs.
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So that's the new price you would pay for that T-shirt if the garment worker was earning enough to sustain himself herself from making clothes.
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The Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Exporters Association has said that it will stand with the garment workers and their families.
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Bangladeshi and international unions and labor rights organizations have initiated an independent fire and building safety program to minimize the risk of future deadly factory fires like those that have recently taken the lives of hundreds of garment workers in Bangladesh and Pakistan.
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Put more bluntly, the numbers are an example of "what some people have called the machine-gun approach," says California's labor commissioner, Julie Su, a former garment-worker advocate appointed by Governor Jerry Brown last year.
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Over 140 women were killed in a fire while they were working as garment workers in the factory.
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Around 50,000 garment workers lost their jobs during the economic downturn in late 2008.
Synonyms
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A person who makes or fixes clothes so they fit
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A woman who sews clothes for a living
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A person who makes and repairs clothes using needle and thread or a sewing machine
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A person who makes dresses and other women's clothes to order
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A person who alters clothes to make them the right size for someone
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A person who makes clothes or fabric from yarn using needles
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A person who makes clothes in a factory or workshop
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A person who folds and sews the edges of clothes
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A woman who sews and fixes clothes for a living
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A person who makes shirts to fit each customer
A person who makes clothes by sewing
A person who uses a sewing machine to join cloth in a factory or workshop
A person or machine that sews pieces of material together
A person who sews or fixes clothes for a living
A person who sews or embroiders by hand
A woman who makes or repairs clothes for a living
A man who designs and makes clothes for women like dresses
A person who makes and alters clothes
A person who makes or repairs long outer clothes, often using cloth and fur
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Garment-worker combines garment (a 'piece of clothing') and worker (someone who works), so it literally means a person who makes or sews clothes, often in factories or workshops.