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Meaning of "relief worker" in the English dictionary

DICTIONARY

PRONUNCIATION OF RELIEF WORKER

rɪˈliːf ˈwɜːkə


GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF RELIEF WORKER

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Relief worker 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 RELIEF WORKER MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Humanitarian aid

Humanitarian aid is material or logistical assistance provided for humanitarian purposes, typically in response to humanitarian crises including natural disaster and man-made disaster. The primary objective of humanitarian aid is to save lives, alleviate suffering, and maintain human dignity. It may therefore be distinguished from development aid, which seeks to address the underlying socioeconomic factors which may have led to a crisis or emergency. According to The Overseas Development Institute, a London-based research establishment, whose findings were released in April 2009 in the paper 'Providing aid in insecure environments:2009 Update', the most lethal year in the history of humanitarianism was 2008, in which 122 aid workers were murdered and 260 assaulted. Those countries deemed least safe were Somalia and Afghanistan. In 2012, Humanitarian Outcomes reports that the countries with the highest incidents were: Afghanistan, South Sudan, Syria, Pakistan and Somalia.

Definition of relief worker in the English dictionary

The definition of relief worker in the dictionary is a person who works for a charity providing aid for people in need, esp in disaster areas. Other definition of relief worker is a person who does your work when you go home, or who is employed to do it instead of you when you are sick.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH RELIEF WORKER

berserker · burka · burqa · care-worker · circa · dock-worker · jerker · lurker · mazurka · metalworker · networker · steelworker · tear-jerker · woodworker · worker

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE RELIEF WORKER

relief · relief agency · relief fund · relief map · relief organization · relief pitcher · relief road · relief supplies · relief troops · relief valve · relief work · reliefless · relier · relies · relievable · relieve · relieve oneself · relieved · relievedly · reliever

WORDS THAT END LIKE RELIEF WORKER

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

Synonyms and antonyms of relief worker in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «relief worker» into 25 languages

TRANSLATOR

TRANSLATION OF RELIEF WORKER

Find out the translation of relief worker to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of relief worker from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «relief worker» in English.
zh

Translator English - Chinese

救援人员
1,325 millions of speakers
es

Translator English - Spanish

socorrista
570 millions of speakers
en

English

relief worker
510 millions of speakers
hi

Translator English - Hindi

राहत कार्यकर्ता
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

عامل الإغاثة
280 millions of speakers
ru

Translator English - Russian

работник рельеф
278 millions of speakers
pt

Translator English - Portuguese

trabalhador alívio
270 millions of speakers
bn

Translator English - Bengali

ত্রাণ কর্মী
260 millions of speakers
fr

Translator English - French

travailleur humanitaire
220 millions of speakers
ms

Translator English - Malay

Pekerja pelepasan
190 millions of speakers
de

Translator English - German

Helferin
180 millions of speakers
ja

Translator English - Japanese

難民救済ワーカー
130 millions of speakers
ko

Translator English - Korean

구호 노동자
85 millions of speakers
jv

Translator English - Javanese

Relief buruh
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

nhân viên cứu trợ
80 millions of speakers
ta

Translator English - Tamil

நிவாரண பணியாளர்
75 millions of speakers
mr

Translator English - Marathi

मदत कार्यकर्ता
75 millions of speakers
tr

Translator English - Turkish

Yardım görevlisi
70 millions of speakers
it

Translator English - Italian

sollievo lavoratore
65 millions of speakers
pl

Translator English - Polish

zwolnienie pracownika
50 millions of speakers
uk

Translator English - Ukrainian

працівник рельєф
40 millions of speakers
ro

Translator English - Romanian

lucrător ajutor
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

εργαζόμενος ανακούφιση
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

verligting werker
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

lättnad arbetaren
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

hjelpearbeider
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of relief worker

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «RELIEF WORKER»

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

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «RELIEF WORKER»

Discover the use of relief worker in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to relief worker and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Where Soldiers Fear to Tread: A Relief Worker's Tale of Survival
If you’ve ever sent 20 bucks off to a relief organization, you owe it to yourself to read this book.”--Michael Maren, author of The Road to Hell: The Ravaging Effects of Foreign Aid and International Charity From the Hardcover edition.
John Burnett, 2007
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Embers of war: letters from a Quaker relief worker in ...
The letters in this book, which were written by McClelland during those 13 months in Germany, provide a day-by-day account of the relief team's life and work, the conditions they tackled and the people they met.
Grigor McClelland, 1997
3
The Embattled Innocence: Recollections of a Muslim Relief Worker
Stories and essays about the author's experiences as a relief worker in the Balkans, the Caucasus and Central Asia in the 1990s
Suleman Ahmer, 2000
4
A Cruel Paradise: Journals of an International Relief Worker
Journals of an International Relief Worker Leanne Olson. It is the names I remember, even after this time. They roll off my tongue like pearls off a string; Gbalatuah, Gbarnga, Fenutoli, Sanniquellie, Ripac, Toposku, Doboj, Banja Luka,  ...
Leanne Olson, 2009
5
In the margins of independence: a relief worker in India and ...
This book presents a vivid, personal and authentic account of three cataclysmic events in the recent history of India and Pakistan.
Richard Symonds, 2001
6
Career Ideas for Kids Who Like Adventure and Travel
WHAT IS AN INTERNATIONAL RELIEF WORKER? For people in trouble, international relief workers are often the human equivalent of Superman. Among the first ones on the scene of the world's most dire situations, these people are quite ...
Diane Lindsey Reeves, Lindsey Clasen, 2007
7
Refocusing Chaplin: A Screen Icon through Critical Lenses
When a relief worker comes by to offer a short bathroom break, the Tramp goes into the bathroom to enjoy a leisurely smoke. He clocks out before entering the bathroom, but that does not prevent the capitalist boss from appearing on a giant  ...
Lawrence Howe, James E. Caron, Benjamin Click, 2013
8
The Selfish Altruist: Relief Work in Famine and War
Tony Vaux brings over 20 years experience as one of Oxfam's leading emergency managers to the exploration of the conflicts between subjective impulses and objective judgements and the dilemmas relief workers contend with.
Anthony Vaux, Tony Vaux, 2013
9
Famine and Relief Operations in India During 1896-97: Papers ...
In selecting the relief workers who are to be drafted to large works regard shall be had to the distance of such works from the relief worker's home, and to the number of women, children^ and infirm persons dependent on, or belonging to, the ...
Great Britain. India Office, 1897
10
Designing Mobile Service Systems - Revised Second Edition
Figure 3-6 visualises the steps between the moment that the relief worker sends a request on where to find the victims and the moment that he/she receives the instructions where to go. First, the relief worker enters a request for the location of  ...
E.A.M. van de Kar, A. Verbraeck, 2008

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «RELIEF WORKER»

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Pakistan remains one of the deadliest countries for aid workers: Report
Pakistan remains one of the deadliest countries in the world for the aid workers with 12 incidents of attacks reported on relief workers reported in the country. «The Express Tribune, Jul 15»
2
Retired Sarnia nurse has returned home from offering aid in Nepal
Disaster relief worker Bonnie Kearns visits with children at the Red Cross base camp in Dhunche, Nepal. The retired Sarnia nurse just returned from the ... «Sarnia Observer, Jun 15»
3
Leicester aid worker heading to Nepal to help earthquake victims
A tsunami survivor turned disaster relief worker is preparing to fly to Nepal to help earthquake victims whose lives have been turned upside down. Andy Chaggar ... «Leicester Mercury, May 15»
4
Home care relief worker wants back pay after landmark ruling
A home care relief worker who was getting just $3 an hour says she now wants ... paves the way for thousands of other workers to receive the same entitlement. «TVNZ, Mar 15»
5
Local Relief Worker Won't Stop Work in Middle East
"This is not a crisis that's going to be fixed overnight and it won't be fixed in a month. I wish I could say it would be fixed in a year or two years..." Dr. Abdalmajid ... «WILX-TV, Feb 15»
6
Indian church appeals for support for relief work in flood-hit Kashmir
"The security forces are turning relief workers away as they would be a liability for the security waters with the high level of water there. So our emergency team ... «The Catholic Register, Sep 14»
7
Iraqi refugees in desperate need of aid, relief worker says
Kris Ozar, head of programming for Catholic Relief Service Egypt, has been traveling back and forth from Erbil, where CRS is working to help the refugees there ... «Catholic News Agency, Aug 14»
8
'People are eating cats': Starvation, deaths plague Syria camp
Hammad is one of multiple credible sources reached inside Yarmouk, including three relief workers and two photographers, who all said hunger is so severe ... «NBCNews.com, Feb 14»
9
Philippines disaster relief: diary from the frontline
I've been a relief worker for 15 years, but down here, with things as they are, days go ... I've seen that there has been criticism of the speed at which aid has got ... «The Guardian, Nov 13»
10
A novice humanitarian aid worker confronts mayhem in the field
But relief worker Jessica Alexander explores a different side of the ... In and Out of Humanitarian Aid, Alexander describes the stress of everyday life in the field, ... «Public Radio International, Oct 13»
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