mill worker

collocation in English

meaningsofmillandworker

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mill
noun[C]
uk
/mɪl/us
/mɪl/
a building where grain is crushed ...
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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 ofmillandworkerfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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At one time one could tell a jutemillworkerin the street by the loudness of his voice.
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You may be amillworkeror a millionaire but if you ask for transitional benefit, you must have it.
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The husband who happened to be a poor man—let us say amillworker, for instance—would not have those advantages.
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It is stated that the average life of themillworkeris thirty-nine.
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Therefore, if any agreement on deferment is arrived at, it should embrace that type of threshingmillworker, who travels from farm to farm.
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In addition to mill buildings andmillworkerhousing, the district includes the 1938 post office building.
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His mother was amillworkerand his father a joiner.
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The adjacent house where themillworkerwould have lived is now a restaurant.
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He was the son of a textilemillworkerbut was obsessed with films.
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He spent his teens and early adulthood working as a railway wagon loader, a construction worker, and an oilmillworker.
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The village also includes significant tracts of survivingmillworkerhousing.
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He spent most of his life as amillworker.
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It also includes two surviving instances ofmillworkerhousing, which were built on the mill property c. 1855.
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His father was a one-armed gristmillworkerand his mother was what was known as a chuck wagon stewardess.
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His father worked as a miner, a prizefighter, and a steelmillworker.
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The wages of jute mill workers provided them with bare subsistence.
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He had been a coal miner, foundry,millworkerin his life prior to the war, but with one leg such work was no longer possible.
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