mineworker
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3.3
- noun
- /ˈmaɪnˌwɜrkər/
:
minero
- A skilled mineworker carefully extracted coal from deep underground to support his family.
- migrant mineworkers
- mineworkers' union
Examples
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The union argues that mineworkers will be worse off financially than they were before because they will now have to pay for their own accommodations, transportation, and food.
Academic text (1992) -
The Thunderbirds rescued over 500 mineworkers in the collapse.
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What the mining companies hope is that the majority of mineworkers will remain in the compounds for financial reasons.
Academic text (1992) -
Finally, when ordinary mineworkers want to bring their families to town, they do so with or without management's approval.
Academic text (1992) -
Mineworkers of the Marikana diamond mine in South Africa are continuing their strike.
Blog text (14) -
First, isolation was achieved by keeping the compounds "closed"; entry and exit were strictly controlled and limited to mineworkers.
Academic text (1998) -
Bates demonstrated the link between mineworkers' economic discontent and their support for the UPP.
Academic text (2006) -
Current discussions in the mining industry focus on the idea of an all-inclusive wage for mineworkers (James 1992b).
Academic text (1992) -
We had to make pickaxes out of papier-mâché and do creative writing depicting the life of a Victorian mineworker.
Fiction book (2000) -
The book is an innovative and sophisticated study of the various elements involved in the making of a capitalist culture that included mineworkers as well as mineowners, politicians, and middle-class reformers.
Academic text (1997)
Synonyms
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2.3
A person who works in a mine to take coal or minerals from the ground
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2.5
A person who works underground to dig out coal
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3.1
A person who digs or pans for gold
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9.8
A person who works in a coal mine digging out coal
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9.9
A person who works underground in a coal mine
A person who searches river sand for gold by washing or digging it up
A person who removes topsoil and rock with large machines to get coal or minerals
A person who removes stone from a quarry
A person, often a child, who pushed or pulled coal carts underground in mines in the past
How Experienced
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4.1
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3.3
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Mineworker is made of mine ('a hole in the ground where people remove coal or other minerals') and worker ('a person who works'), so a mineworker is someone who works in a mine to take out those materials.