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settlement worker

American  

noun

  1. a person who works with underprivileged people in a settlement house.


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Jane Addams, grey-haired Chicago settlement worker, walking across the dining room of Hull House, slipped, fell, broke her wrist.

From Time Magazine Archive

Upon his graduation in 1905, he took a job as a settlement worker in the New York slums.

From Time Magazine Archive

But Harry Hopkins is no typical settlement worker.

From Time Magazine Archive

A librarian or a settlement worker who sees only children from non-English speaking homes is in danger of forgetting that there are others who can use books in unsimplified form.

From Library Work with Children by Hazeltine, Alice Isabel

Below me are two painters and a settlement worker, and next door is a blind Anarchist and a Yiddish poet.

From The Machine by Sinclair, Upton

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