miner
noun
a person who works in a mine, especially a commercial mine producing coal or metallic ores.
miners
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pluralof miner.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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Parton could have limited her tracks to farmers, coal miners, swing shifters, assembly line workers and other laborers whom country music constantly lionizes, and no one would have complained.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2026
—European markets were mixed in early trading, with rises in technology stocks offsetting falls in miners.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026
Finning’s services to lithium miners in Bolivia and copper miners in Chile and Argentina give it “a very significant opportunity for profits,” with those materials in such high demand during the AI build-out, Robotti said.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 13, 2026
Reports, external say a majority of Panna's miners are daily-wage labourers who work for lease-holders - if they find a diamond, the money goes to the lease-holder and not the miners themselves.
From BBC ● Aug. 12, 2026
The miners whispered about organizing a union, and Fannie encouraged them, but a judge had outlawed the United Mine Workers of America, or UMWA, in the region.
From "Fannie Never Flinched" by Mary Cronk Farrell
