front-line worker

collocation in English

meaningsoffront-lineandworker

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front-line
adjective[before noun]
uk
/ˈfrʌntˌlaɪn/
us
/ˈfrʌntˌlaɪn/
involved in fighting during ...
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worker
noun[C]
uk
/ˈwɜː.kər/
us
/ˈwɝː.kɚ/
someone who works in a particular job or in a ...
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(Definition offront-lineandworkerfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Ideally, specialist services will be available, but we must also ensure that everyfront-lineworkerwho is dealing with the victims of domestic violence has had basic training.
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This seems of particular interest since none of the authorities studied devolved budgets to front-line workers.
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Negotiating access to community care assessments : perspectives of front-line workers, people with disability and carers.
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However, far from this implementation deficit indicating front-line workers' non-compliance, there was evidence that managers and social workers shared assumptive worlds.
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What is explored here is whether the actions of families with children on home supervision in their encounters with front-line workers merit such a re-conceptualisation.
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This is all the more significant when many of the front-line workers involved in all agencies were highly inexperienced.
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The main purpose of this work is to provide theoretically situated, practically productive, and ethically-sensitive guidelines to the front-line workers most likely to engage in reminiscence work.
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I am sure that he will welcome the enthusiasm and commitment of local government workers—the front-line workers.
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It is essential that front-line workers be supported by their managers in implementing and developing the protocols to tackle domestic violence.
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At times the men in the yards express to me the feeling that front-line workers are being expected to carry increasingly top-heavy administration.
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Service quality and support for front-line workers are at the heart of our approach to the efficiency agenda.
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The firm collects ideas from a clients executives, front-line workers, or other departments and staff.
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