guest worker

1. 1.

   a person with temporary permission to work in another country

   “a Moroccan guestworker in Canada was accused of aiding terrorists”

   Synonymsguestworker

   Broaderworkman

Questions about guest worker

What does guest worker mean?

guest worker means "a person with temporary permission to work in another country".

What is another word for guest worker?

Close synonyms include guestworker. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is guest worker a common word?

guest worker is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.