strip miner

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   a miner who does strip mining

   Broaderminer

Questions about strip miner

What does strip miner mean?

strip miner means "a miner who does strip mining".

Is strip miner a common word?

strip miner 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.