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guest worker


guest worker

noun

: a person from one country who lives and works for a time in another country

Full Definition of GUEST WORKER

:  a foreign laborer working temporarily in an industrialized usually European country
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First Known Use of GUEST WORKER

1960

Rhymes with GUEST WORKER

caseworker, dockworker, farmworker, field-worker, glassworker, handworker, ironworker, networker, outworker, pieceworker, sex worker, steelworker, tearjerker, timeworker, wageworker, woodworker

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