contract worker
collocation in Englishmeaningsofcontractandworker
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contract
noun[C]
uk/ˈkɒn.trækt/us/ˈkɑːn.trækt/
a legal document that states and explains a formal agreement between two different people or groups, or the ...
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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 ofcontractandworkerfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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To what extent is a worker known as a "contractworker" in the agricultural industry?
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Is onecontractworkerto count as 10 skilled artisans?
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He is now acontractworkerin a pit in another area.
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Something must be done about the vast differences which exist between thecontractworkerat the face and the day-wage worker.
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Onecontractworkerat the production plant successfully sued the company.
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He or she is usually acontractworkerfor one or more news organizations.
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This reform aimed at separating city pension pools for contract workers and permanent workers; that is, contract workers had to make individual contributions, while permanent workers initially did not.
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At that time they established themselves as farmers, if they had access to land or could lease it, or as crofters, cottagers, soldiers, craftsmen, contract workers, day-labourers and so on.
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These records list ministry employees according to function, academic qualification, bureaucratic rank, classified status, type of work pursued, university degrees, training inside/outside the bureaucracy, and nationality of contract workers.
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Physicians, like other contract workers, can negotiate collectively for improved working conditions, benefits, and pay.
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As well as new divisions between core management and a periphery of contract workers, this makes it difficult to determine which are real indicators and which are virtual ones.
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The bulk of this group is formed by cottagers, artisans, soldiers, contract workers (statare) and other agricultural workers who had no property and did not lease landholdings.
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Thankfully, we now have directives covering part-time and fixed-term contract workers.
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For example, the mine workers and others are contract workers, coming in and going out.
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Those were not compulsory redundancies, but the release of contract workers.
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What about the contract workers who have been made redundant in the past?
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Personal pensions are not suitable for many, such as low earners or contract workers.
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The paper concerned the trade union view regarding the use of draughting agencies and contract workers in engineering.
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A number of contract workers are therefore still operating unlicensed.
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