urban worker
collocation in Englishmeaningsofurbanandworker
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urban
adjective[before noun]
uk/ˈɜː.bən/us/ˈɝː.bən/
of or in a city ...
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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 ofurbanandworkerfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofurban worker
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Did he mean that theurbanworkeris paid too low wages and is unable to pay the price he ought to pay for agricultural products?
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I never believed that there was much in the talk about suspicion between the town dweller and the countryman and between theurbanworkerand the rural worker.
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He can keep hens on a very comprehensive scale and make an acceptable and appreciable contribution to his diet, which theurbanworkerhas far less opportunity of doing.
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It is recognized that in comparison with theurbanworkerthe agricultural labourer is in many respects not quite so well off.
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Just because he is isolated, why should he not be given the same protection as theurbanworkermight have?
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Individuals were broadly categorised as a rural orurbanworker.
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The mobility of labor allows agricultural workers to pass on the negative effects to urban workers.
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These formed a third (34%) of the urban workers.
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He is a plant and animal seller, a form ofurbanworkerwho obtained flowers, reeds and small animals from the country to sell in the centre of the city.
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Unlike "fashion", this slang is regarded as adequate for males (actually, this term is a stereotypical part of the vocabulary ofurbanworkerclass males lacking in education and refinement).
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Despite low wages, urban workers were often inclined to engage in employment only sporadically.
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They were supported by the landless, the urban workers and the unemployed.
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Lear argues that failure was more than just the result of a cultural gap between rural revolutionaries and urban workers, and demonstrates that it came about for practical reasons.
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Yet after 1985, fewer skilled urban workers traveled abroad, and those who did so came home sooner.
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Thus, in the typical urban worker's household of the early 1920s household work was solidly in the hands of the women, regardless of whether they were working or not.
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These incorporated wide sections of the population, but especially prominent were urban workers, trade unions, and the middle classes, including students, teachers, and civil servants.
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He was not able to link the grievances of urban workers with their family problems in the rural areas.
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There was a serious drawback to his proposal, however: a flat rate contribution was far too harsh on persons of low income, especially rural but also urban workers.
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