ordinary worker

collocation in English

meaningsofordinaryandworker

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ordinary
adjective
uk
/ˈɔː.dən.əri/us
/ˈɔːr.dən.er.i/
not different or special or unexpected in any ...
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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 ofordinaryandworkerfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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The greatest burden in putting the country right has been borne by theordinaryworker: let there be no doubt about that.
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They have opportunities of indulging in golf, tennis and other recreations which are denied to theordinaryworker.
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To anordinaryworkerthe market forces are just as anti-freedom as is any kind of planning.
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This is the balance sheet put before theordinaryworker.
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They have a wholly imaginary concept of the reaction of theordinaryworkerto the pay-as-you-earn system.
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Even if these commodities are obtainable, she cannot, if she is the wife of theordinaryworker, afford the money to buy them.
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The cost of houses has priced theordinaryworkerout of the market.
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We are not only concerned with training at the level of theordinaryworker, but at all levels.
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In 1939 theordinaryworkerpaid no tax.
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How can theordinaryworkerpay a doctor twice or three times a week to have the insulin injected into his blood?
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All sorts of figures are taken into consideration relating to food which theordinaryworkerdoes not have on his table week by week.
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You are asking us to agree to increasing the price of commodities which theordinaryworkerhas to use.
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It will become quite impossible for local authorities to erect houses in which theordinaryworkercan afford to live.
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If that is done it will be found that theordinaryworkeris quite intelligent and anxious to co-operate.
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Is this a tax that will weigh heavily on theordinaryworker?
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How is the foreman or the manager to stand in relation to theordinaryworker?
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Then the animals were taken to the slaughterhouse, and it is there that theordinaryworkerplayed an important part.
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We on this side could not provide for management a different kind of security to that which we seek to supply to theordinaryworker.
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Will he now abandon the claim that theordinaryworkeron ordinary earnings can purchase a new house?
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The new clause says that there shall be supervision and would make it easier for theordinaryworkerto get compensation for serious injury.
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