factory_worker has definitions from the field of work
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[ noun ] (work) a workman in a mill or factory

Synonyms

mill-hand

Used in print

(David Boroff, "Jewish Teen-Age Culture"...)

The Jewish working_girl almost invariably works in an office - in contradistinction to gentile factory_workers - and , buttressed by a respectable income , she is likely to dress better and live more expansively than the college_student .

(Randall Stewart, "A Little History, a Little Honesty: A...)

In the pre Civil_War years , the South argued that the slave was not less humanely treated than the factory_worker of the North .

Related terms

worker workman mill-girl

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