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mineworker

American  
[mahyn-wur-ker] / ˈmaɪnˌwɜr kər /
Or mine worker

noun

  1. miner.


Etymology

Origin of mineworker

First recorded in 1900–05; mine 2 + worker


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The country registered 49 mineworker deaths in 2022, its safest year on record.

From Reuters ● Nov. 28, 2023

Former mineworker Stephen O'Reilly was among their victims, lost more than £100,000, and now has to work in a bookmakers to pay his bills.

From BBC ● Apr. 22, 2022

“We are vaccinated, and we got punished for no reason,” said Ty Bays, a mineworker and rancher from Silver City, whose son was also exhibiting a steer.

From Washington Post ● Sep. 26, 2021

Strike leader Gaddafi Mdoda, a mineworker at Anglo American Platinum, or Amplats, said he was one of the workers who received emails or SMS messages telling them they had been dismissed.

From New York Times ● Oct. 5, 2012

Her father, a mineworker, had died when she was an infant, and her mother when she was twelve.

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela

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