mineworker

Thân thiện

A mineworker wears a hard hat and carries a pickaxe into the tunnel.

Definition

1. Noun:
   • A laborer who works in a mine: A person whose job involves extracting coal, minerals, or other materials from the earth by working in a mine.

Usage Examples

• Noun:
  • The mineworker descended into the shaft at the start of his shift.
  • Safety is a primary concern for every mineworker.
  • The town's economy depended heavily on the mineworkers and their families.

Advanced Usage

• The term mineworker is often used in formal, sociological, or economic contexts when discussing labor, industry, or workers' rights.
  • The new legislation aims to improve the pension benefits for retired mineworkers.

Variants and Related Words

• Miner (n): A more common synonym for mineworker.
  • Coal miners have a very dangerous job.
• Mining (n): The industry or process of extracting minerals from the earth.
  • He studied mining engineering.

Synonyms

• Miner
• Collier (specifically for a coal miner)
• Pitman

Related Phrases

• While mineworker itself is not typically part of phrasal verbs, it is central to compound nouns related to the industry.
  • mineworker safety
  • mineworker union

Related Idioms

• No common idioms are directly formed with the word mineworker. However, idioms related to mining, such as "a canary in a coal mine" (an early warning sign), are associated with the industry.

Học thuật

Noun

1. laborer who works in a mine

Từ đồng nghĩa

• miner