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settlement worker

noun

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



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Andrei Zavialov, a settlement worker with Ukrainian Canadian Social Services Toronto, said he knows of at least 15 Ukrainians who have returned to their home country from the Greater Toronto Area since the war broke out.

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Here is a fertile field for a Christian settlement, but the settlement worker should be a resident of the community.

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Neither have I forgotten that it was one of these very men who, having failed, and afterward got a job as a bridge policeman, on his first pay day went straight from his post, half frozen as he was, to the settlement worker who had befriended him and his sick father, and gave him five dollars for "some one who was poorer than they."

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St. Elizabeth of Hungary, the first settlement worker.

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A College Settlement worker, enthusiastically supported by the Head Resident, determined to secure it for some of them.

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