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settlement worker

noun

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


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Some thought of him as merely a sort of social settlement-worker, living among men to improve them, in a sleek, earnest spirit.

I have known a settlement worker to experience great relief from asthma when living in the slums.

I believe Rebbie is going to be a philanthropist, or a college-settlement worker.

Milly noticed that Hazel Fredericks and the settlement worker kept their heads lowered disapprovingly.

I'll be an actress, or a settlement-worker, or a suffragette—I don't care what.

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