war worker

English

Alternative forms

• warworker, war-worker

Noun

war worker (plural war workers)

1. Someone who does war work.
   • 1943 March and April, John R. Hind, “The British Railways at War”, in Railway Magazine, page 95:

     Sleeping cars are occupied by priority passengers, and goods have taken the places of pleasure travellers, apart from additional services for war workers.

   • 2004, Emilie Stoltzfus, Citizen, Mother, Worker, →ISBN:

     Instead of riveting, the prototypical female war worker typed.