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guest worker

noun [C]
 
 

Definition

a person who lives and works in a foreign country for a limited period of time, doing low-paid and usually unskilled workPeople who live or settle somewhere
(Definition of guest worker noun from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

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