war worker

plural war workers · alternative warworker · alternative war-worker

1. Someone who does war work.

   Instead of riveting, the prototypical female war worker typed.

   2004, Emilie Stoltzfus, Citizen, Mother, Worker, →ISBN

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   Sleeping cars are occupied by priority passengers, and goods have taken the places of pleasure travellers, apart from additional services for war workers.

   1943 March and April, John R. Hind, “The British Railways at War”, in Railway Magazine, page 95