minermin‧er /ˈmaɪnə $ -ər/ ●●○ noun [countable] 
a strike by coal miners
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
- a coal miner
- And an invaluable inheritance from lead miner, linen weaver and gentleman scientist.
- As to the miners, before I saw them in the flesh, I would see them in photographs.
- But, ominously, official trade unions, which formerly supported the government, are now throwing in with independent miners.
- Certain letters had been recently received from the miners telling of a new discovery in Westmorland.
- Government and industry are behind by some $ 4 billion in paying workers, from coal miners to teachers.
- The miners tramped up the valleys in the morning, worked all day and came down at night.
- The dredger represents a major technological advance for the miners.
- The first two of a series of four two-week training workshops for would-be small-scale miners were held in Bulawayo and Chegutu respectively.
WORD SETS
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COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY a strike by coal minersCOLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
someone who works under the ground in a mine to remove coal, gold etccoal/gold etc miner a strike by coal miners (=by miners, teachers etc)· The transport workers’ strike inflicted serious damage on the economy.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADJECTIVE· Nelson, historic landmarks from the early days of the fur-trader, the gold miner and the explorer.
· Tips are like sea fronts to the old miner.· The older generations of miners were almost a race apart, misunderstood by outsiders.· Perhaps it is worth noting that the old miners make 110 reference to any. deliberate wrecking of the Coniston workings.
· The police did not only employ the law of criminal procedure in their tactical battle against the striking miners.· Some hundreds of striking miners would turn up to picket and to persuade working miners to join them.
NOUN· K Thousands of coal miners marched through central London to protest at the Government's bungled pit closures.· Government and industry are behind by some $ 4 billion in paying workers, from coal miners to teachers.· The Government's prime motivation is to carry out an act of revenge on coal miners and coal mining communities.· A total of 1272 men from the general population and 2099 retired coal miners aged 50-75 years took part in the study.· Not only that, the coal miners throughout the Soviet Union went on strike.· What problems are there for the coal miners?· I wanted to be a coal miner, and that was a serious ambition, too.
· The applicability of such data derived from uranium miners to the general population is central to the radon issue.· Can data on radon exposure and cancer risks in uranium miners be applied to the general population?
VERB· From the start, there was much confusion about who should come out on strike to support the miners.
· A decade later 7,000 soldiers were working alongside civilian miners.· The first thing we learn about them is that they have returned home from working as miners in the mountains.· Mr Watson worked as a lead miner and was inspired to write by his upper Teesdale surroundings.· The artist was one of the so called Bevin boys, who were drafted in to work as miners during the last war.
a strike by coal miners