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What is "social worker"

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
social worker
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A social worker is interpreting the proceedings for Mr Robson, a carpenter, who has speech difficulties.
▪ His wife, a former social worker, gave up that line of work when she concluded it was hopeless.
▪ In the role of therapist and social worker, I have seen many of those left behind assume the blame themselves.
▪ The social worker tried to mediate without success in the available time.
Wiktionary
social worker

n. A person whose profession is social work.

WordNet
social worker

n. someone employed to provide social services (especially to the disadvantaged) [syn: caseworker, welfare worker]

Usage examples of "social worker".

Down at the Old Bailey, that backward and primitive place, no villain can be sent down to chokey as a result of a leading question, or a bit of gossip in the saloon bar, or what a child said to a social worker and wasn't even cross-examined.

Once a social worker gets her hooks into you, you never get well, because you're a renewable resource.

He thought: If she were completely the spinster, the frustrated social worker, as people think of those women, the kind who would scorn sex in the haughty conceit of her own virtue, that would still be recognition, if only in hostility.

Sofia's a social worker, but she knows more street law than me and Abraham combined.