guest worker
noun
: a foreign laborer working temporarily in an industrialized usually European country
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His father emigrated from Macedonia to Germany in 1968 to work in the metals industry, as part of a guest worker program initiated amid a labor shortage.
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Lenora Chu, The Christian Science Monitor, 17 June 2024
And the United States can continue to expand legal pathways for migrants, including through guest worker programs, family reunification, and humanitarian visas, so that people do not have to trek to the U.S. border simply to present themselves to U.S. officials.
—Shannon K. O'Neil, Foreign Affairs, 27 May 2024
Mexico has long recruited Guatemalan guest workers to help pick coffee beans in southern Chiapas state.
—Mary Beth Sheridan, Washington Post, 23 Mar. 2024
The company hires people from other countries to work on its 11,000 acres of farmland as part of an H-2A agricultural guest worker program.
—Julia Marnin, Miami Herald, 6 Mar. 2024
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Lenora Chu, The Christian Science Monitor, 17 June 2024
And the United States can continue to expand legal pathways for migrants, including through guest worker programs, family reunification, and humanitarian visas, so that people do not have to trek to the U.S. border simply to present themselves to U.S. officials.
—Shannon K. O'Neil, Foreign Affairs, 27 May 2024
Mexico has long recruited Guatemalan guest workers to help pick coffee beans in southern Chiapas state.
—Mary Beth Sheridan, Washington Post, 23 Mar. 2024
The company hires people from other countries to work on its 11,000 acres of farmland as part of an H-2A agricultural guest worker program.
—Julia Marnin, Miami Herald, 6 Mar. 2024
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“Guest worker.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/guest%20worker. Accessed 4 Jul. 2024.
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