streetworker
streetworker noun: a social worker who engages with people on the street.
Noun
streetworker (plural streetworkers)
- 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
- 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...
- A streetworker also offered unsafe sex but only orally, and again at her discretion. All other workers were fastidious, especially the parlour workers, and one streetworker claimed that she always used two condoms.2005 (2000), Joanna Brewis & Stephen Linstead, Sex, Work and Sex Work: Eroticizing organization, Taylor & Francis (first edition: by Routledge), p.214f.
Forms of streetworker
| plural | streetworkers |
|---|---|
| alternative form | street worker |
Origin of streetworker
From street + worker.
Questions about streetworker
- What does streetworker mean?
- Streetworker means a social worker who engages with people on the street.
- What part of speech is streetworker?
- Streetworker is a noun.
- What is the plural of streetworker?
- The plural of streetworker is streetworkers.
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