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1 worker
1) (a person who works or who is employed in an office, a factory etc: office-workers; car-workers.) starfsmaður2) (a manual worker rather than an office-worker etc.) verkamaður3) (a person who works (hard etc): He's a slow/hard worker.) mikill/lítill verkmaður -
2 chambermaid
noun (a female servant or hotel worker in charge of bedrooms.) þjónustustúlka -
3 striker
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4 mechanic
[mi'kænik] 1. noun(a skilled worker who repairs or maintains machinery.) vélvirki- mechanically
- mechanics 2. noun plural(the ways in which something works or is applied: the mechanics of the legal system.) starfsemi, gangur, kerfi- mechanize
- mechanise
- mechanization
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5 work
[wə:k] 1. noun1) (effort made in order to achieve or make something: He has done a lot of work on this project) vinna2) (employment: I cannot find work in this town.) vinna, starf3) (a task or tasks; the thing that one is working on: Please clear your work off the table.) verkefni4) (a painting, book, piece of music etc: the works of Van Gogh / Shakespeare/Mozart; This work was composed in 1816.) verk5) (the product or result of a person's labours: His work has shown a great improvement lately.) vinna6) (one's place of employment: He left (his) work at 5.30 p.m.; I don't think I'll go to work tomorrow.) vinnustaður2. verb1) (to (cause to) make efforts in order to achieve or make something: She works at the factory three days a week; He works his employees very hard; I've been working on/at a new project.) vinna, starfa; láta (e-n) vinna2) (to be employed: Are you working just now?) hafa starf/vinnu3) (to (cause to) operate (in the correct way): He has no idea how that machine works / how to work that machine; That machine doesn't/won't work, but this one's working.) vera í lagi, virka4) (to be practicable and/or successful: If my scheme works, we'll be rich!) gefast vel, heppnast5) (to make (one's way) slowly and carefully with effort or difficulty: She worked her way up the rock face.) mjaka(st)6) (to get into, or put into, a stated condition or position, slowly and gradually: The wheel worked loose.) losa/losna smám saman7) (to make by craftsmanship: The ornaments had been worked in gold.) vinna, móta•- - work- workable
- worker
- works 3. noun plural1) (the mechanism (of a watch, clock etc): The works are all rusted.) gangverk2) (deeds, actions etc: She's devoted her life to good works.) góðverk•- work-box
- workbook
- workforce
- working class
- working day
- work-day
- working hours
- working-party
- work-party
- working week
- workman
- workmanlike
- workmanship
- workmate
- workout
- workshop
- at work
- get/set to work
- go to work on
- have one's work cut out
- in working order
- out of work
- work of art
- work off
- work out
- work up
- work up to
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6 community
[kə'mju:nəti]plural - communities; noun1) (a group of people especially having the same religion or nationality and living in the same general area: the West Indian community in London.) samfélag2) (the public in general: He did it for the good of the community; ( also adjective) a community worker, a community centre.) almenningur -
7 factory
['fæktəri]plural - factories; noun(a workshop where manufactured articles are made in large numbers: a car factory; ( also adjective) a factory worker.) verksmiðja -
8 fast
I 1. adjective1) (quick-moving: a fast car.) hraður; hraðskreiður2) (quick: a fast worker.) hraður, fljótur3) ((of a clock, watch etc) showing a time in advance of the correct time: My watch is five minutes fast.) of fljótur, á undan2. adverb(quickly: She speaks so fast I can't understand her.) hratt- fastness- fast foods
- fast food II 1. verb(to go without food, especially for religious or medical reasons: Muslims fast during the festival of Ramadan.) fasta2. noun(a time or act of fasting: She has just finished two days' fast.) fasta- fastingIII adjective1) ((of a dye) fixed; that will not come out of a fabric when it is washed.) litekta, sem rennur hvorki né upplitast2) (firm; fixed: She made her end of the rope fast to a tree.) kirfilega festur• -
9 forest
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10 instance
['instəns](an example, especially of a condition or circumstance: As a social worker, he saw many instances of extreme poverty.) dæmi; atvik, tilfelli -
11 joiner
['‹oinə](a skilled worker in wood who puts doors, stairs etc into buildings.) húsgagna- og innréttingasmiður- joinery -
12 manual
['mænjuəl] 1. adjective1) (of the hand or hands: manual skills/labour.) hand-, handa-2) (working with the hands: a manual worker.) -hand-3) (worked or operated by the hand: a car with a manual gearbox.) handvirkur; beinskiptur2. noun1) (a handbook eg of technical information about a machine etc: an instruction manual.) leiðarvísir2) (a keyboard of an organ etc.) nótnaborð, lyklaborð•- manually -
13 mason
['meisn]((usually stonemason) a skilled worker or builder in stone.) múrari, steinsmiður- masonry -
14 neuter
['nju:tə]1) (in certain languages, of the gender which is neither masculine nor feminine: a neuter noun.) hvorugkyns2) (without sex: Worker bees are neuter, being neither male nor female.) kynlaus -
15 probation
[prə'beiʃən, ]( American[) prou-]1) (the system allowing people who have broken the law to go free on condition that they commit no more crimes and report regularly to a social worker.) skilorðsdómur2) ((in certain jobs) a period of time during which a person is carefully watched to see that he is capable of the job.) reynslutími•- probation officer
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16 social work
work which deals with the care of people in a community, especially of the poor, under-privileged etc (noun social worker) félagsráðgjöf
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