social worker

Noun

Meaning

someone employed to provide social services (especially to the disadvantaged)

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

caseworker nurse humanitarian practitioner philanthropist counselor nursemaid supervisor caregiver psychotherapist psychoanalyst educationalist therapist social services child services
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Hypernyms

occupation public servant

Hyponyms

almoner medical social worker

Examples

It would be wonderful to have a guru; it would be like having a social worker or a personal trainer, not that people who had either of these necessarily appreciated the advice they received. Alexander McCall Smith

For a long time I was interested in being a social worker. In a lot of ways I feel that that's all my music is, trying to help people. Iris DeMent

As far as service goes, it can take the form of a million things. To do service, you don't have to be a doctor working in the slums for free, or become a social worker. Your position in life and what you do doesn't matter as much as how you do what you do. Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

I had a little insight into life that most kids probably didn't have. My mother was a schoolteacher, and my father was a social worker. Through his eyes I saw the underside of society. Charles Kuralt

I couldn't even go to the bathroom alone. My mother or a social worker always went with me. Natalie Wood

I felt like a social worker a lot of the time. Stella Vine

Close letter words and terms

social whatever social whirl social work social works social-chauvinist