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sex worker

[ seks wur-ker ]

noun

  1. a person employed in the sex industry, as a prostitute, pornographic film actor, stripper, nude model, or creator of sexually explicit online content.


sex worker

noun

  1. a prostitute
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Word History and Origins

Origin of sex worker1

First recorded in 1970–75
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Iain Packer was convicted last year of killing the 27-year-old sex worker in woods in South Lanarkshire - 19 years after he was first identified as a suspect.

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The Trump administration has offered a series of post-facto excuses for why this father and union apprentice should be denied the opportunity to ever see his family again, centering on the claim that he was a member of MS-13; as with the barber, that too is an allegation that relies on the testimony of an unreliable cop — one who later pleaded guilty to giving confidential police information to a sex worker, according to The New Republic.

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This name was in part due to suggestions that Molly Malone worked as a fishmonger by day and as a sex worker by night.

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In 2009, court records show that a man by thename of Andre Cobbs was charged with robbing and assaulting a sex worker in Lynwood as she walked to her car.

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Over the months, the two of them bonded, Soriano said, talking often about Becerra Moran navigating life as a trans woman of color who supported herself as a sex worker while living on the streets.

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