workamper
workamper noun: a participant in workamping.
Noun
workamper (plural workampers)
- A participant in workamping.
- Another workamper, employed with California Land Management in 2015, gave the company a one-star review on Yelp, claiming she and her husband were often on the job for twelve hours or longer in a given day but weren’t allowed to file for more than eight.2017, Jessica Bruder, Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century, New York: W. W. Norton & Company, →ISBN, page 24
- Workampers are modern mobile travelers who take temporary jobs around the US in exchange for a free campsite – usually including power, water and sewer connections – and perhaps a stipend. […] Other workampers I spoke with had their own ways of describing themselves.2017 December 2, Jessica Bruder, “Living in cars, working for Amazon: meet America's new nomads”, in The Guardian, →ISSN, archived from the original on 19 Jan 2022
Forms of workamper
| plural | workampers |
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Origin of workamper
Blend of work + camper.
Questions about workamper
- What does workamper mean?
- Workamper means a participant in workamping.
- What part of speech is workamper?
- Workamper is a noun.
- What is the plural of workamper?
- The plural of workamper is workampers.
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