settlement worker
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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But Harry Hopkins is no typical settlement worker.
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
Jane Addams, grey-haired Chicago settlement worker, walking across the dining room of Hull House, slipped, fell, broke her wrist.
From Time Magazine Archive
An envelope showing the amount due the girl is sent from the school to the settlement worker, and on this is indicated any absence or tardiness.
From The Making of a Trade School by Mary Schenck Woolman
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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