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    A gangmaster is the person in charge of a large group of labourers who do hard outdoor work — picking fruit, working on farms, that kind of job. In Britain the word is used in a quite special way: the workers are often from other countries, and some of them may not have official permission to work there. The gangmaster organises the crew, and often also finds the people, moves them, and pays them. You will see it in British news and law, not as a name for a normal office boss. Though actually, after some terrible accidents, Britain made rules about who may be a gangmaster at all. It is not gangster: there is no film “crime family” in the picture, even when the work is unfair or against the law.

    外勞工頭。英國用法;和台灣說的「仲介」不完全一樣,指現場帶著一群外籍勞工做粗活的那個人,有時那些人沒有合法工作身分。

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組成gang (a group of workers) + master (the person in charge).

同家族的字

  • ganghere, a work crew, not a crime group
  • masterthe person in charge

原始詞典資料1 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,原文照列,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

gangmasternoun/ˈɡæŋˌmɑːstə/

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    A person who employs and directs large groups of (usually agricultural) manual labourers, especially those who are poorly paid and illegally employed.

    • Many who immigrate illegally fall victim to gangmasters, who exploit them for low pay under extreme conditions.

資料來源:英文維基詞典 English WiktionaryCC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。