hired worker
collocation in Englishmeaningsofhireandworker
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hire
noun
uk/haɪər/us/haɪr/
UK
an arrangement to use something by paying ...
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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 ofhireandworkerfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofhired worker
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Wages owed to ahiredworkerare not to be withheld.
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Organic producers needed more labor, especially hired workers, and used more lime, organic fertilizer and insect traps, while conventional producers used more synthetic inputs.
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Hired workers provided 37 per cent of all labor used on lowland farms in 1995, and 70 per cent in 1999.
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Since the literature reports many grazers adopting the practice to make use of family labor, adoption probabilities are expected to be decreasing in the number of hired workers.
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Due to these characteristics of family governance, family workers choose not to take advantage of ample shirking opportunities, which would otherwise be used by hired workers.
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Construction was done half by the troops and half by hired workers.
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He also finds himself at the hands of his father once again when one of his father's hired workers comes looking for him.
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Although the domestic farm labor force has decreased in the last century, the proportion of hired workers has grown.
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Almost 45% of all hired workers of the country are the members of trades unions.
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During its first years the members of the moshav hired workers to plant orange groves while its members lived in the cities.
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The newly hired workers then rented empty houses next to the construction site, and workers were even building their own homes next to the soon-to-be lake.
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