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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
steelworker
noun
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▪ Deborah runs a job-training program at Republic Steel, to place steelworkers in new jobs.
▪ Does he not realise the bitterness of the steelworkers who were in no way consulted?
▪ I almost said, the steelworkers have had their Depression and maybe this one is just for us.
▪ I feel guiltier than most, I suppose, because I made my money off steelworkers.
▪ In the Greater Chicago area alone, 70, 000 steelworkers lost their jobs in the Reagan years.
▪ Now, maybe, if organized labor had not collapsed, they would not be steelworkers.
▪ They spent millions on mental health programs in Youngstown, and we were able to trace 33 steelworkers who used them.
Wiktionary
steelworker

alt. 1 A person who manufactures or shapes steel. 2 (context uncommon English) A person employed to build steel structures, an ironworker. n. 1 A person who manufactures or shapes steel. 2 (context uncommon English) A person employed to build steel structures, an ironworker.

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steelworker

n. a worker engaged in making steel [syn: steelmaker, steelman]

Wikipedia
Steelworker (United States Navy)

Steelworker (abbreviated as SW) is a United States Navy occupational rating.

Steelworkers perform tasks directly related to fabrication and erection of pre-engineered structures, including steel reinforcement; control job site deployment of materials and equipment; direct and coordinate the composition, training and efforts of crews who fabricate, assemble, erect, position and join structural members and fabricated sections; maintain individual combat readiness and perform tasks required in combat and disaster preparedness or recovery operations.

At the Master Chief Petty Officer level, Steelworker merges with the Builder and Engineering Aide ratings. At this level, they are referred to as a Master Chief Constructionman (CUCM).

Usage examples of "steelworker".

Everything else came to a standstill, the steelworkers swearing solidarity with the railroad men until the Pennsylvania canceled its wage cuts.

Pennsylvania later in 1919, where men worked twelve hours a day, six days a week, doing exhausting work under intense heat, 100,000 steelworkers were signed up in twenty different AFL craft unions.

But the steelworkers were too insistent, and in September 1919, not only the 100,000 union men but 250,000 others went out on strike.

Reagan arrived in Pittsburgh in April 1983 to make a speech, 3000 people, many of them unemployed steelworkers, demonstrated against him, standing in the rain outside his hotel.

Heavy industry filled its quotas of electricians, steelworkers, diemakers, mechanics and unskilled laborers with these captive peoples.

He saw dozens of steelworkers sitting around the big yards, lunch pails beside them.