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piece-worker

piece-worker is the alternative form of pieceworker.

Meaning of pieceworker

Noun

pieceworker (plural pieceworkers)

  1. A worker who is paid according to the number of units of work produced.
    • The lowliest of employees, piece workers were paid only for each bird or mammal they stuffed, or each fossil they prepared.2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: A Natural History, page 245

Forms of piece-worker

pluralpiece-workers

Questions about piece-worker

What is piece-worker the alternative form of?
Piece-worker is the alternative form of pieceworker.

Words near piece-worker in the dictionary

  1. piece-dye
  2. piece-dyed
  3. piece-dyeing
  4. piece-dyes
  5. piece-work
  6. piece-worker
  7. piece-workers
  8. pieceable
  9. pieced
  10. pieced out
  11. pieced together

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