Definition of "garment-worker" [garment-worker]

• A person who makes garments (noun)

WordNet. Princeton University. 2010.

• ""I live in one of those old-lady garment-worker socialist buildings which has now gone capitalist," she said from the Lower East Side."
• "No one can suppose that every Greek boy desires to become a shoeblack, or that every Scandinavian girl is fitted for domestic service and for nothing else; that every Slavic Jewess should become a garment-worker; that every Italian man should work on the roads; that the Lithuanian and Hungarian, no matter what their training or their ability, should be compelled to go into the steel-rolling mills."
• "After many years spent as a garment-worker, she became a teacher in the Manhattan Trade School for Girls."