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guest worker

NOUN
  1. a person with temporary permission to work in another country
    a Moroccan guestworker in Canada was accused of aiding terrorists

How To Use guest worker In A Sentence

  • Besides, do these illegals really want guest worker programs, or just to get all the benefits of citizenship without going through the legal process like the *legal* immigrants? Immigration: Spelling Things Out
  • The demonstration was in opposition to government plans to levy a new tax on those employing guest workers as domestics, and to cut the minimum wages of maids.
  • They began arriving in the 1960s as guest workers invited to offset a shortage of manpower. Times, Sunday Times
  • No doubt the guest worker provisions are particularly onerous; nonetheless, with a new Z-visaed or legal immigrant, you still have a worker who is taking what is for him a pay RAISE that undercuts the prevailing wage. Matthew Yglesias » Downward Spiral
  • He argues that the best way to deal the immigration problem is a guest worker program.
  • It's a sleepy place with lots of guest workers to cater for visitors, and offers little of the festive culture you find elsewhere in the Caribbean.
  • The term expatriate is also an unfriendly term for a society that relies heavily on the industry of tourism to generate revenue and partially built on the backs of guest workers from other countries and cultures. Cayman Net News Daily Headlines
  • He worked at one of the camps that was set up for Russian former soldiers who were then guest workers.
  • The Senate version includes a temporary guest worker program and a formula that would enable some illegal immigrants to eventually apply for citizenship.
  • ROMANS: Congressman J.D. Hayworth has been called a restrictionist for not supporting the president's guest worker program and pushing for tougher border enforcement. CNN Transcript Dec 13, 2005
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