Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A worker in the automobile industry.
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- noun Someone who works as an
assembly line worker in an automobile assembly plant.
Etymologies
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Examples
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The actual take home pay of the average autoworker is around 28 bucks an hour.
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The actual take home pay of the average autoworker is around 28 bucks an hour.
Lance Mannion: 2009
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But they're all in the factory now making $15 an hour - about half of what the typical German autoworker makes.
Dave Johnson: Winning The Race To The Bottom Dave Johnson 2010
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The textile worker become an autoworker, or a glass worker, or an aviation worker.
Borjas: What's His Problem?, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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At a break in testimony, Demjanjuk, a retired Ohio autoworker, motioned for the two to come over and they embraced him as he lay in a hospital bed.
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She, with her Chrysler autoworker spouse, James Boggs now deceased, had been looking at a post-industrial future back in the 1980s as automation replaced workers in the auto plants.
Olga Bonfiglio: In Detroit, Rampant Joblessness Spurs Reinvention of Work Itself Olga Bonfiglio 2011
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But they're all in the factory now making $15 an hour - about half of what the typical German autoworker makes.
Dave Johnson: Winning The Race To The Bottom Dave Johnson 2010
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General Motors has 10 UAW pensioner/shareholders for every active autoworker.
Conrad Black: My Manifesto For the Occupy Movement Conrad Black 2011
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But they're all in the factory now making $15 an hour - about half of what the typical German autoworker makes.
Dave Johnson: Winning The Race To The Bottom Dave Johnson 2010
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Former autoworker Gloria Lowe illustrated this point by describing her relationship with veterans with PTSD in her home rehabilitation work, We Want Green Too!
Olga Bonfiglio: In Detroit, Rampant Joblessness Spurs Reinvention of Work Itself Olga Bonfiglio 2011
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