"social worker" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

Forms: social workers [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} social worker (plural social workers)
  1. A person, usually employed by the state, that supports the welfare of individuals or groups, especially those that are socially disadvantaged. Categories (topical): Occupations, People Related terms: social work Translations (person whose profession is social work): أَخِصَّائِيّ اِجْتِمَاعِيّ (ʔaḵiṣṣāʔiyy ijtimāʕiyy) (Arabic), assistent social (Catalan), 社會福利工作者 (Chinese Mandarin), 社会福利工作者 (shèhuì fúlì gōngzuòzhě) (Chinese Mandarin), 社會工作者 (Chinese Mandarin), 社会工作者 (shèhuì gōngzuòzhě) (Chinese Mandarin), 社工 (shègōng) (Chinese Mandarin), sosiaalityöntekijä (Finnish), travailleur social [masculine] (French), travailleuse sociale [feminine] (French), Sozialarbeiter [masculine] (German), Sozialarbeiterin [feminine] (German), assistente sociale (Italian), operatore social (Italian), ソーシャルワーカー (sōsharuwākā) (Japanese), സാമൂഹിക പ്രവർത്തകൻ (sāmūhika pravaṟttakaṉ) [masculine] (Malayalam), нийгмийн ажилтан (niigmiin ažiltan) (Mongolian), pracownik socjalny [masculine] (Polish), assistente social [feminine, masculine] (Portuguese), asistent social [masculine] (Romanian), социа́льный рабо́тник (sociálʹnyj rabótnik) [masculine] (Russian), социа́льная рабо́тница (sociálʹnaja rabótnica) [feminine] (Russian), asistente social (Spanish), handläggare [common-gender] (Swedish), socialarbetare [common-gender] (Swedish), socialassistent [common-gender] (Swedish), sosyal çalışmacı (Turkish)

Inflected forms

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          "text": "I had a visit from my social worker last week.",
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          "text": "These are but a few instances of the benefits conferred by him as a social worker; but until these can be fully recorded, let us bear in mind as no small part of the debt we owe to the truly noble man[…]",
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          "text": "Mr. J. W. Martin of London, England, will deliver a series of lectures in St. Louls this week. Mr. Martin is a member of the famous Fabian Society of London, and an educator and social worker of note in his own country.",
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          "sense": "person whose profession is social work",
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          "sense": "person whose profession is social work",
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          "sense": "person whose profession is social work",
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          "sense": "person whose profession is social work",
          "word": "assistente sociale"
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          "sense": "person whose profession is social work",
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          "roman": "sāmūhika pravaṟttakaṉ",
          "sense": "person whose profession is social work",
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            "masculine"
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          "word": "സാമൂഹിക പ്രവർത്തകൻ"
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          "roman": "niigmiin ažiltan",
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          "roman": "sociálʹnyj rabótnik",
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          "roman": "sociálʹnaja rabótnica",
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          "sense": "person whose profession is social work",
          "word": "asistente social"
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          "sense": "person whose profession is social work",
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          "word": "handläggare"
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          "lang": "Swedish",
          "sense": "person whose profession is social work",
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          "sense": "person whose profession is social work",
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          "word": "socialassistent"
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          "code": "tr",
          "lang": "Turkish",
          "sense": "person whose profession is social work",
          "word": "sosyal çalışmacı"
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      "sense": "person whose profession is social work",
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      "sense": "person whose profession is social work",
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      "roman": "sāmūhika pravaṟttakaṉ",
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      "word": "സാമൂഹിക പ്രവർത്തകൻ"
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      "code": "mn",
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      "roman": "niigmiin ažiltan",
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      "word": "pracownik socjalny"
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      "sense": "person whose profession is social work",
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      "word": "assistente social"
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      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
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      "roman": "sociálʹnyj rabótnik",
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      "word": "социа́льный рабо́тник"
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      "roman": "sociálʹnaja rabótnica",
      "sense": "person whose profession is social work",
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      "word": "социа́льная рабо́тница"
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      "sense": "person whose profession is social work",
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      "sense": "person whose profession is social work",
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      "sense": "person whose profession is social work",
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      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "person whose profession is social work",
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      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "person whose profession is social work",
      "word": "sosyal çalışmacı"
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  "word": "social worker"
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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-12-15 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-12-04 using wiktextract (8a39820 and 4401a4c). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.