Definition of "mineworker" []

• One who works in a mine; a miner. (noun)

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• "Yesterday moves lyrically between the rural and urban, capturing the breadth of the country and the double life of the migrant mineworker."
• "Their leader was Frank Desmond Anderson, a twenty-eight-year-old mineworker who had been organizing for the union since the age of nineteen."
• "It is refreshing to hear the new head of the AFL-CIO, former mineworker and Mineworkers President Richard Trumka, get mad at sell-out Democrats and make a threat not to "support" them next year."