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autoworker

noun

Etymology

From auto + worker.

  1. inherited from werkere
  2. compounded as autoworker — “auto + worker”

Definitions

  1. Someone who works as an assembly line worker in an automobile assembly plant.

    • In the United States, the main autoworkers' union is the UAW, the United Auto Workers.
    • Though Davis hasn’t experienced the violence other campuses faced, Weintraut said UCD grad students stand in solidarity with UCLA, UCI and UCSD and chose to follow the stand-up strike strategy the UAW used to organize autoworkers.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA