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mineworker

mine·work·er
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Transcription

    • US Pronunciation
    • US IPA
    • UK Pronunciation
    • UK IPA
    • [mahyn-wur-ker]
    • /ˈmaɪnˌwɜr kər/
    • /ˈmaɪn.wɜːkə(r)/
    • US Pronunciation
    • US IPA
    • [mahyn-wur-ker]
    • /ˈmaɪnˌwɜr kər/

Definitions of mineworker word

  • abbreviation MINEWORKER miner. 1
  • noun mineworker A person who works in a mine, especially a coal mine. 1
  • noun mineworker a person who works in a mine 0
  • noun mineworker miner (sense 1) 0

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Origin of mineworker

First appearance:

before 1900
One of the 17% newest English words
First recorded in 1900-05; mine2 + worker

Historical Comparancy

Parts of speech for Mineworker

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation

mineworker popularity

A pretty common term. Usually people know it’s meaning, but prefer to use a more spread out synonym. About 43% of English native speakers know the meaning and use word.
According to our data about 56% of words is more used. This is a rare but used term. It occurs in the pages of specialized literature and in the speech of educated people.

mineworker usage trend in Literature

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Synonyms for mineworker

noun mineworker

  • bloodsucker — A bloodsucker is any creature that sucks blood from a wound that it has made in an animal or person.
  • leechMargaret, 1893–1974, U.S. historian, novelist, and biographer.
  • parasite — an organism that lives on or in an organism of another species, known as the host, from the body of which it obtains nutriment.
  • sponge — any aquatic, chiefly marine animal of the phylum Porifera, having a porous structure and usually a horny, siliceous or calcareous internal skeleton or framework, occurring in large, sessile colonies.
  • user — the exercise of a right to the enjoyment of property.

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