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threshold workers

threshold workers is the plural of threshold worker.

Meaning of threshold worker

Noun

threshold worker (plural threshold workers)

  1. A worker with very limited skills and experience in his/her chosen career.
    • Several special types of unemployed workers are described. These include nonmodal workers, threshold workers, "the unemployables", and the physically handicapped.1934, United States. Bureau of Employment Security, Employment Security Review, volumes 2-5, page 15

Questions about threshold workers

What is threshold workers the plural of?
Threshold workers is the plural of threshold worker.

Words near threshold workers in the dictionary

  1. threshold effects
  2. threshold of originality
  3. threshold potential
  4. threshold potentials
  5. threshold worker
  6. threshold workers
  7. thresholded
  8. thresholder
  9. thresholders
  10. thresholding
  11. thresholdless

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