settlement worker
Americannoun
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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
Perhaps six times a year Miss Toland went to Sausalito for a few days, and then, during her first year as a settlement worker, Julia went to her grandmother's house.
From The Story of Julia Page by Kathleen Thompson Norris
The charity worker and the settlement worker have need of each other: neither one can afford to ignore the experience of the other.
From Friendly Visiting among the Poor A Handbook for Charity Workers by Mary Ellen Richmond
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