swamper

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of swamper Their partners, known as swampers, grabbed at underbrush and dragged it away. M. R. O’Connor, The New Yorker, 27 Jan. 2025 During his tenure in the oil patch, Smith worked as a truck driver’s assistant, or swamper, for a rig-moving company. Sarah Smarsh, The Atlantic, 16 Apr. 2021 If something were to happen to the captain, the swamper would be the one to radio for help and manage the situation until others arrived. Joseph Serna, latimes.com, 15 Dec. 2017 That comes from my roots of playing in clubs where sometimes the only person who was there was the swamper cleaning up the bar. Bob Doerschuk, USA TODAY, 8 May 2017
Recent Examples of Synonyms for swamper
Noun
  • Those responsible for homeland security should not be chasing laborers on farms and busboys in restaurants in order to meet quotas imposed by the White House.
    Thomas Wright, The Atlantic, 19 June 2025
  • At the same time, industrial facilities lured laborers into factories and mills as fewer were needed to work the land.
    Riley Robinson, Christian Science Monitor, 8 June 2025
Noun
  • With the new minimum in place, a full-time worker in the nation's capital will earn an additional $727 in annual wages, on average, according to the EPI's calculations.
    Megan Cerullo, CBS News, 27 June 2025
  • On Tuesday, a Red Cross worker told the Star-Telegram that a few people had stopped by to cool down and get information.
    Fousia Abdullahi, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 27 June 2025
Noun
  • The median of the total annual compensation of all Meta employees other than Zuckerberg was $417,400 last year.
    Amanda Gerut, Fortune, 27 June 2025
  • According to Microsoft Outlook's productivity report, employees average 6.6 hours of overtime per week.
    Jodie Cook, Forbes.com, 26 June 2025
Noun
  • To pretend otherwise in the year 2024 is all-but to out oneself as a hireling.
    Charles C. W. Cooke, National Review, 12 Feb. 2024
  • For all the bombast about Trump as a potential Putin hireling, so assiduously hyped by the media and congressional Democrats, Mueller’s actual charges mainly involved false statements made to FBI investigators, often about comparatively trivial matters.
    Andrew C. McCarthy, National Review, 15 Feb. 2022

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“Swamper.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/swamper. Accessed 3 Jul. 2025.

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