power worker
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- noun
- Specialized
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trabajador de planta eléctrica
- After the storm, the power worker worked tirelessly to restore electricity to the entire neighborhood.
Examples
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It's also very sad and should be criminal that union power workers stopped workers from coming north to help restore power after Hurricane Sandy.
Blog text (13) -
There had to be something he could do; there had to be openings for a ceramic power worker somewhere.
Fiction book (1991) -
Just so glad my state is always prepared with food, water, fuel, and we don't chase off out-of-state power workers that come to help us because they aren't union.
Blog text (22) -
Power workers spent most of Monday constructing a 6-foot concrete wall around a substation in Stamford in an attempt to keep the water at bay.
Blog text (14) -
The power worker carefully monitored the generators to ensure they were functioning efficiently.
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A group of power workers conducted routine maintenance checks at the power station to prevent outages.
Synonyms
A person who works at a power station and keeps the machines running
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a person who works at a power station or with electrical power' is directly and transparently derived from combining 'power' (electrical energy) with 'worker' (a person who works). This compound follows regular English noun-noun composition and mirrors patterns found in other languages, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents would readily infer the intended meaning.
Etymology
Power worker comes from the words power (meaning 'electricity') and worker (a person who works). It is someone who runs or fixes the machines at a power station, so it means 'a person who works to produce or keep electricity running'.