essential worker
English edit
Noun edit
essential worker (plural essential workers)
- a worker who is considered crucial to a particular sector
- a worker considered necessary for the community at large; especially first responders, other medical, education and transport personnel.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see essential, worker.
See also edit
- “essential worker, n.” under “essential, n.”, in OED Online
, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, March 2021; “essential worker, n.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
