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street worker

street worker is the alternative form of streetworker.

Meaning of streetworker

Noun

streetworker (plural streetworkers)

  1. A social worker who engages with people on the street.
    • They are streetworkers, gang outreach specialists employed by the city of Boston. There are about two dozen of them.2002, Gary S. Katzmann, Securing Our Children's Future
  2. A prostitute (who works on the street).
    • Thus for many streetworkers, the cost of refusing client's demands is greater, and their power to resist the requests of the client, including a possible desire for high risk sex, is substantially reduced.2005 (1991), Tim Robinson & Peter Davies, London's Homosexeual Male Prostitutes: Power, Peer Groups and HIV, in: AIDS: Responses, Interventions and Care, Peter Aggleton & Graham Hart & Peter Davies...

Forms of street worker

pluralstreet workers

Questions about street worker

What is street worker the alternative form of?
Street worker is the alternative form of streetworker.

Words near street worker in the dictionary

  1. street values
  2. street walker
  3. street walkers
  4. street wisdom
  5. street work
  6. street worker
  7. street workers
  8. street workout
  9. street workouts
  10. street works
  11. street-arab

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