welfare worker

collocation in English

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welfare
noun[U]
uk
/ˈwel.feər/us
/ˈwel.fer/
help given, especially by the state or an organization, to people who need it, especially because they do not have ...
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worker
noun[C]
uk
/ˈwɜː.kər/us
/ˈwɝː.kɚ/
someone who works in a particular job or in a ...
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(Definition ofwelfareandworkerfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Awelfareworkersaid ' you'll see a lot of loneliness here, a lot of problems ', and they were evident.
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Certainly there would be a trained socialwelfareworker.
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He is not necessarily a trainedwelfareworker.
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It is not just a few chats with awelfareworker.
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That localwelfareworkerwas with him at the mortuary when the bodies were identified.
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Surely, the qualified privilege is precisely that which attaches to anywelfareworker, is it not?
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I was talking to awelfareworkeronly yesterday.
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Again that is probably a point made by a socialwelfareworkerin a thesis in a university.
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Such a woman goes to the nearest refuge and, under the present position, thewelfareworkerwill take her to a social security office on the following day.
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The only way to find awelfareworkerof this type, of this universality, of this calibre, is to look for him through one of the well-known national charities.
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We feel strongly that no deaf person should be certified unless a trained teacher of the deaf orwelfareworkeris present at the examination and taken into full consultation.
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Nevertheless, it does happen that a woman occasionally asks to be put in touch with awelfareworker, and we do not dismiss this as of no value.
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I know of a case of awelfareworkerwho found that babies in a centre had been fed for four days on bully beef.
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I was talking about my conversation with awelfareworkerwho was giving me particulars of cases.
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Awelfareworkertold me the other day that if they saw the number of children who had been injured in the last two years it would horrify the country.
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The responsibility for these matters rests with the county council which takes the view that it has no power to have a multi-purposewelfareworker.
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I venture to say that the greatest service the social reformer orwelfareworkercan render is to have a positive constructive policy for the hours of leisure.
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