unpaid worker
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- noun
- /ʌnˈpeɪd ˈwɜrkər/
:
voluntario
- The organization relies heavily on unpaid workers who volunteer their skills to assist with various projects.
Examples
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Many unpaid workers contribute their time to community gardens to help beautify the neighborhood.
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Most paid workers were given subject positions as recognized citizens in this system, while the unemployed or unpaid workers were not.
Academic text (1991) -
Indeed, it remains primarily the responsibility of low-paid or, in the case of family members and friends, unpaid workers.
Academic text (1990) -
The decline in living standards and the creation of new groups of poor, such as unemployed and unpaid workers, put added pressure on the state, yet the capacity of the state itself to respond was being rapidly weakened.
Academic text (1998) -
Amelia worked until Jennifer arrived, then became what she still was: a full-time housewife, parent, and unpaid worker for a dozen school and civic projects.
Fiction book (1997) -
The informal proletariat is defined as the sum of own-account workers minus professionals and technicians, domestic servants, and paid and unpaid workers in microenterprises.
Academic text (2003) -
The museums, since their initial founding, have been economically self-sufficient at all times: they are staffed through the cargo system by unpaid workers who do the job for the enhanced community that it brings, and the entrance fees collected go toward electricity and basic expenses.
Academic text (2006) -
As an unpaid worker, she dedicated her weekends to helping at the local animal shelter.
Synonyms
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2.2
A person who offers to help without being paid
How Paid
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a person who performs work without receiving payment' is directly and compositionally derived from 'unpaid' (not paid) + 'worker' (a person who works). This simple adjective+noun combination follows a common cross-linguistic pattern and would be immediately understandable to a B1 learner who knows both constituent words.
Etymology
Unpaid worker comes from the plain image of a worker who is unpaid — someone who gives their time for free to help a charity, a church, or a local event. So, the phrase means 'a person who does work without being paid'.