Streetworker

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A social worker who engages with people on the street.

    "They are streetworkers, gang outreach specialists employed by the city of Boston. There are about two dozen of them."

  2. 2
    A prostitute (who works on the street).

    "Thus for many streetworkers, the cost of refusing client's demands is greater, and their power to resist the requests of the client, including a possible desire for high risk sex, is substantially reduced."

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"They are streetworkers, gang outreach specialists employed by the city of Boston. There are about two dozen of them."

Etymology

From street + worker.

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social worker

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