streetworkers

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...