guest worker
nounDefinition of guest worker
: a foreign laborer working temporarily in an industrialized usually European country
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The secretary of state told reporters the U.S. has new, credible reports that Russia has violated U.N. sanctions by allowing joint ventures with North Korean companies and issuing new permits for North Korean guest workers. — Amy Lieu, Fox News, "Pompeo warns Russia, China about violating North Korea sanctions," 4 Aug. 2018 Instead, the new Republican mantra involved securing the border before any talk of proposals like guest worker programs. — Gromer Jeffers Jr., Dallas News, "Democrats say anti-Hispanic tone set by Trump, Texas lawmakers creates 'toxic environment'," 5 Aug. 2019 But guest workers are not the answer: H-2A visas are subject to changes that can weaken guest workers’ rights and undermine the wages of workers who live here. — Michael Greenberg, The New York Review of Books, "Farmworker Anxieties," 21 Feb. 2019 The rules of the agricultural guest worker program forbid recruiting fees. — Maria Perez, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, "What we know so far about the human trafficking scheme that allegedly forced dozens of Mexican men to work on Wisconsin farms," 19 June 2019 Today, the neighborhood is mostly populated by a mix of descendants of Turkish guest workers, older Germans, and some young couples seeking relief from higher-rent neighborhoods. — Elisabeth Zerofsky, The New Yorker, "The Causes and Consequences of Berlin’s Rapid Gentrification," 12 July 2019 The four defendants were based in Colquitt County, Ga. Maria Remedios Garcia-Olalde, 52, was Saul Garcia Jr.’s aunt and worked as a crew leader on a guest worker visa. — Maria Perez, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, "What we know so far about the human trafficking scheme that allegedly forced dozens of Mexican men to work on Wisconsin farms," 19 June 2019 But there is general agreement that the sandwich staple was brought to Germany by Turkish guest workers in the late 1960s or early ‘70s. — Mark Kurlyandchik, Detroit Free Press, "Balkan House in Hamtramck is metro Detroit's only spot for German-style doner kebab," 13 June 2019 The rest were foreign guest workers with H-2B visas, the only immigration program the president has sought to expand. — Fabiola Santiago, miamiherald, "'America First?' Not when it comes to hiring foreign workers for Trump's Mar-a-Lago," 10 July 2018These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'guest worker.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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