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RESEARCH WORKER
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Dictionary entry overview: What does research worker mean?
• RESEARCH WORKER (noun)
The noun RESEARCH WORKER has 1 sense:
1. a scientist who devotes himself to doing research
Familiarity information: RESEARCH WORKER used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A scientist who devotes himself to doing research
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Synonyms:
investigator; research worker; researcher
Hypernyms ("research worker" is a kind of...):
scientist (a person with advanced knowledge of one or more sciences)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "research worker"):
experimenter (a research worker who conducts experiments)
boffin ((British slang) a scientist or technician engaged in military research)
fieldworker (a researcher who works in the field)
post doc; postdoc (a scholar or researcher who is involved in academic study beyond the level of a doctoral degree)
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