guest worker

Domain: Universal Words

Part of speech: noun

a person, usually from a poor country, who comes to another richer country in order to work there

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This is a English–English dictionary entry.

Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.

This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.

Same word in other sources

guest workerEnglish›ChineseMain Dictionary guest workerEnglish›ChineseGetWord Corpus

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