steelworker

[ steel-wur-ker ]

noun

1. a person employed in the process of manufacturing steel and steel products.

Word History and Origins

Origin of steelworker¹

First recorded in 1880–85; steel + worker

Example Sentences

He told the steelworkers he was “pro-policing, pro–community policing, pro–funding the police,” and called the activist cry to “defund the police” an “absurd phrase.”

From TIme

She grew up as one of six kids in a working-class family in Buffalo, with a steelworker father and an “always pregnant” mother.

From Time

His father was a steelworker, and his mother was a homemaker.

From Washington Post

There are thousands of songs about fishermen, about farmers, about steelworkers, because these are soul-filling jobs that have direct function for things that society needs.

From Freakonomics

“They came in and sucked the life out of us,” said one steelworker.

From The Daily Beast

Am I under the delusion that when we lose 10,000 steelworker jobs, that necessarily means 10,000 fewer people working?

From The Daily Beast

Why did a pro-Obama super PAC play fast and loose with the sad story of a widowed steelworker?

From The Daily Beast