social worker

English

Noun

social worker (plural social workers)

1. A person whose profession is social work.
   • 2005, Jennifer Worth, Shadows of the Workhouse, Weidenfeld & Nicholson (2009), page 274:

     There canʼt have been many social workers at that troubled time who heard an expression of gratitude.

Translations

person whose profession is social work

• Catalan: assistent social
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 社會福利工作者／社会福利工作者 (shèhuì fúlì gōngzuòzhě), 社會工作者／社会工作者 (zh) (shèhuì gōngzuòzhě), 社工 (zh) (shègōng)

• Finnish: sosiaalityöntekijä (fi)
• French: travailleur social (fr) m, travailleuse sociale (fr) f
• German: Sozialarbeiter (de) m, Sozialarbeiterin (de) f
• Italian: assistente sociale (it), operatore social
• Japanese: ソーシャルワーカー (sōsharuwākā)
• Malayalam: സാമൂഹിക പ്രവർത്തകൻ m (sāmūhika pravaṟttakaṉ)
• Mongolian: нийгмийн ажилтан (niigmiin ažiltan)
• Polish: pracownik socjalny m
• Portuguese: assistente social m or f
• Romanian: asistent social m
• Russian: социа́льный рабо́тник (ru) m (sociálʹnyj rabótnik), социа́льная рабо́тница f (sociálʹnaja rabótnica)
• Spanish: asistente social
• Swedish: handläggare (sv) c, socialarbetare (sv) c, socialassistent c