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PRONUNCIATION OF PIECEWORKER

pieceworker  [ˈpiːsˌwɜːkə] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF PIECEWORKER

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adjective
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pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
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Pieceworker is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES PIECEWORKER MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of pieceworker in the English dictionary

The definition of pieceworker in the dictionary is someone who does work paid for according to the quantity produced.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH PIECEWORKER


autoworker
ˈɔːtəʊˌwɜːkə
bodyworker
ˈbɒdɪˌwɜːkə
counterworker
ˈkaʊntəˌwɜːkə
dayworker
ˈdeɪˌwɜːkə
dock-worker
ˈdɒkˌwɜːkə
faceworker
ˈfeɪsˌwɜːkə
glass-worker
ˈɡlɑːsˌwɜːkə
homeworker
ˈhəʊmˌwɜːkə
houseworker
ˈhaʊsˌwɜːkə
ironworker
ˈaɪənˌwɜːkə
needleworker
ˈniːdəlˌwɜːkə
networker
ˈnɛtˌwɜːkə
outworker
ˈaʊtˌwɜːkə
slopworker
ˈslɒpˌwɜːkə
stoneworker
ˈstəʊnˌwɜːkə
tutworker
ˈtʌtˌwɜːkə
underworker
ˈʌndəˌwɜːkə
waxworker
ˈwæksˌwɜːkə
wonder-worker
ˈwʌndəˌwɜːkə
woodworker
ˈwʊdˌwɜːkə

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE PIECEWORKER

piece
piece goods
piece of cake
piece of eight
piece of piss
piece out
piece rate
piece to camera
piece-dyed
pieceless
piecemeal
piecen
piecener
piecer
pieces
pieces of eight
piecewise
piecewise function
piecework
piecrust

WORDS THAT END LIKE PIECEWORKER

aid worker
care-worker
childcare worker
co-worker
community worker
construction worker
corker
factory worker
field worker
forker
health care worker
knowledge worker
medical social worker
New Yorker
office worker
Parker
social worker
steelworker
white-collar worker
worker
yorker

Synonyms and antonyms of pieceworker in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «pieceworker» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF PIECEWORKER

Find out the translation of pieceworker to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of pieceworker from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «pieceworker» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

pieceworker
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

trabajadores a destajo
570 millions of speakers

English

pieceworker
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

pieceworker
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

pieceworker
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

сдельщика
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

pieceworker
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

pieceworker
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

ouvrier payé à la pièce
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Pieceworker
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Akkordarbeiter
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

pieceworker
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

pieceworker
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Pieceworker
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

người làm khoán
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

pieceworker
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

काम करणारी व्यक्ती
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

parça başı çalışan kimse
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

pieceworker
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

pieceworker
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

сдельщика
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

pieceworker
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

pieceworker
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

pieceworker
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

pieceworker
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

pieceworker
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of pieceworker

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «PIECEWORKER»

The term «pieceworker» is used very little and occupies the 179.569 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «PIECEWORKER» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «pieceworker» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «pieceworker» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about pieceworker

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PIECEWORKER»

Discover the use of pieceworker in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to pieceworker and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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na
SECTION 21 MEANING OF PIECEWORKER 21(1) A pieceworker is: (a) a national system employee to whom a modern award applies and who is defined or described in the award as a pieceworker; or (b) a national system employee to whom ...
2
Agency in Archaeology
The pre- 1841 pieceworker's assemblage has a small percentage of creamwares (7 percent) and the largest group of wares consists of transfer printed pearlwares (38.8 percent). There is also a large representation of shell-edged (14 percent) ...
Marcia-Anne Dobres, John Robb, 2014
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Australian Fair Work Act 2009: With Regulations and Rules
SECTION 21 MEANING OF PIECEWORKER 21(1) A pieceworker is: (a) a national system employee to whom a modern award applies and who is defined or described in the award as a pieceworker; or (b) a national system employee to whom ...
Cch, 2010
4
A Story of Bad
"Name Pieceworker." The pieceworkers were the women June had seen bent over their sewing machines, those who put the cut pieces together, sewed and added elastic and sewed some more then passed the garments to the inspectors and ...
Edward M. Krauss, 2008
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The Collected Clinical Works of Alfred Adler
Since the master pieceworker dominates the tailor trade it becomes obvious that only a small proportion of journeymen are employed in the larger stores where they enjoy good pay and restricted hours. It is just as clear that on the job training  ...
Alfred Adler, 2002
6
Wages and Regularity of Employment and Standardization of ...
Among buttonhole makers, the women had approximately one pieceworker to two week workers, while the men had three pieceworkers for every two week workers ; in other words, the ratio of pieceworkers to week workers was three times as ...
Nahum Isaac Stone, Royal Meeker, 1914
7
Pay and Productivity Bargaining: A Study of the Effect of ...
The relatively steady relationship between pieceworker and day- wageman indicated by the figures quoted is the more remarkable in view of the increase in face productivity over this period. Mr. Turner in his comments on differentials in the ...
R. G. Searle-Barnes, 1969
8
Ontario Labour Relations Board Reports
These employees primarily perform repair work which is sometimes necessary as a result of the failure of the pieceworker to perform the job properly. In that case, however, the parties had agreed that "pieceworkers" who did not employ two or ...
Ontario Labour Relations Board, 2004
9
Canadian Labour Relations Boards Reports
13. In addition to determining how many and which pieceworkers it will utilize and what it will pay to the pieceworker for the carpentry work performed on a house, the carpentry contractor usually has a person on site who supervises the ...
‎1990
10
Zapotec Women: Gender, Class, and Ethnicity in Globalized Oaxaca
Labor in this type of production unit can include both unpaid merchant household members and contracted weavers in pieceworker households who are working in their own homes. Pieceworker weavers usually own their own means of ...
Lynn Stephen, 2005

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «PIECEWORKER»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term pieceworker is used in the context of the following news items.
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Washington High Court: Piece Rate Compensation Alone Does Not …
In this context, the Court instructed affected employers to compute the pieceworker's regular rate of pay for rest break compensation by dividing ... «The National Law Review, Jul 15»
2
State's high court says ag workers must have paid breaks
... separate from the piece rate must equal at least the applicable minimum wage or the pieceworker's regular rate of pay, whichever is greater.”. «The Packer, Jul 15»
3
Washington's Highest Court Rules Piece Rate Compensation Does …
In this context, the Court instructed affected employers to compute the pieceworker's regular rate of pay for rest break compensation by dividing ... «The National Law Review, Jul 15»
4
Court: Piece-rate farmworkers must be paid for rest breaks
“If rest breaks are compensated at a lower wage than the pieceworker's regular rate, there is a strong incentive to miss rest breaks. That result ... «Capital Press, Jul 15»
5
Words for Music Perhaps
“I tricked myself into composing,” he explains, by putting himself on a time clock, like a pieceworker in the steel mill where he was once ... «The Nation., Apr 15»
6
The curse of mediocrity in our public schools
Another lived in a one-bedroom apartment with her mother, a garment pieceworker; the student had to help her mother in the mornings and ... «The Age, Jan 15»
7
Social realism meets Educating Rita with a singalong in 'Dreamers'
The dreamers are a widow who ekes out a living as a pieceworker and a young immigrant struggling to find work in a community hostile to ... «The Australian, Nov 14»
8
Top marks for hard work
... everyone as an "exceptionally clever girl"— lived in a tiny one-bedroom unit with her mother, who was a home-based garment pieceworker; ... «Sydney Morning Herald, Aug 14»
9
Magnum photographers in the Black Country
He is the highest-paid pieceworker in the foundry, staggering from the crucible with a bule and ladle holding 25kg of molten iron, pouring it into ... «Financial Times, Oct 13»
10
Do we need to track hours for pieceworkers?
To determine whether a pieceworker has been paid minimum wage, you must determine the regular rate of pay. This may be computed in two ... «Business Management Daily, Mar 13»

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