textile worker
collocation in Englishmeaningsoftextileandworker
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textile
noun[C]
uk/ˈtek.staɪl/us/ˈtek.staɪl/
a cloth made by hand ...
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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 oftextileandworkerfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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You cannot judge on the same facts as applied to a docker and atextileworker.
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Thetextileworkerhas always been worst paid of all skilled workers.
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In the past, the machine has been the juggernaut of thetextileworker.
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Who comes first—the unemployedtextileworkeror someone 5,000 miles away?
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I would rather see in the same family a bootmaker, a carpenter, a coal-miner, a steel worker, and atextileworker.
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He was atextileworkeron a temporary short-time working scheme and therefore on a low wage, with his wife not working.
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This means that, considered nationally, the average worker is employed more profitably than is thetextileworker.
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You can have division of labour only by specialisation, and you make every individual into a mechanic, an engineer, a miner, atextileworker, or something of that kind.
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Let us consider the situation of atextileworkerwho, month after month, works one week on and then one week off.
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Thetextileworkerand the miner are the most sturdy and self-respecting people in this country, but they are losing, through no fault of their own.
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A comparabletextileworkerreceives only £750, even if he has spent all his life with the same firm, which is highly unlikely.
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I am told that 87 is a great age, though when my father was 87 he was still a full-timetextileworker.
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It is ridiculous and untenable that an agricultural worker is allowed to lift up to 170 lbs, while atextileworkercan lift up to only 120 lbs.
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No one who has studied the economic history of the textile industry can show me anytextileworkerwho has got fat working in a mill.
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Take thetextileworker, for example.
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If there are surplus engineers, it is not possible for that man to convert himself into a pattern maker, or a collier, or atextileworker.
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Atextileworkerwho is always engaged in producing cloth without pattern, without design, naturally works upon a rather monotonous process.
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His father was atextileworkerand the family was very poor.
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His father, atextileworker, died later that same year.
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Her father was atextileworkeroriginally and loved photography.
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