garmentworker

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

garment +‎ worker

Noun[edit]

garmentworker (plural garmentworkers)

  1. A person who works making clothes.
    • 1965, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Un-American Activities, Communist Activities in the Chicago, Illinois Area: Hearings..., page 334:
      I had met Rose Topercer in the garment industry. Rose Topercer was a garmentworker the same as I was. […] When I first joined the Communist Party in 1957, I was assigned to the Needle Club, being a needleworker.
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