foundry worker
collocation in Englishmeaningsoffoundryandworker
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foundry
noun[C]
uk/ˈfaʊn.dri/us/ˈfaʊn.dri/
a factory where metal is melted and poured into specially shaped containers to produce objects such as wheels ...
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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 offoundryandworkerfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Let me give as an example the case of afoundryworkerwho lost an eye as a result of a splash of molten metal.
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I want to quote four lines from a book sent to me by afoundryworker.
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How can one accept the thesis that afoundryworkershould retire on the identical birthday of a worker in another field?
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Usually, the only engineering worker who has a bath at work is afoundryworker.
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Why should we differentiate between the miner and thefoundryworker?
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I suggest, secondly, that nofoundryworkerought to be dismissed without suitable alternative work being found for him.
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Only one ironfoundryworkeris registered as unemployed, but some short time continues to be worked at one foundry, owing to a shortage of orders for marine castings.
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However, the authors earnings were not enough for living and supporting the family, so he retained his main occupation as afoundryworkertill 1976.
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Facing discrimination that he had rarely encountered as a soldier, he worked in the ensuing years as a tram conductor, afoundryworker, and a shipping clerk.
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We are told that we are short of coalminers, brickmakers, foundry workers and textile workers.
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Present conditions militate against young men being willing to work as foundry workers.
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I have one question to ask, because it has been disturbing foundry workers.
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The fall in the number of foundry workers over the last five or six years has been considerable.
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There are very few foundry workers registered as unemployed and vacancies, particularly for skilled workers, are not easy to fill.
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Those figures show that in spite of the work which has been done in foundries, foundry workers, particularly dressers, are still seriously endangered by pneumoconiosis.
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I am concerned about the existence of dust in the atmospheres of foundries and the effects of that on the health of foundry workers.
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We have foundry workers included, and "persons employed wholly or mainly in the maintenance of premises, plant or machinery" but it excludes certain other categories.
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The rational approach would be to have a slightly higherper capitalevy focussed on a slightly narrower base, namely, the foundry workers.
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I would say, in conclusion, that this tax is paid for by the foundry workers themselves.
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