Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A person who works outside; especially, one employed by a tailor or dressmaker who works at home.

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  • This piece makes selling craft on etsy.com seem like being your own personal outworker.

    local? esther 2009

  • This piece makes selling craft on etsy.com seem like being your own personal outworker.

    Archive 2009-06-01 esther 2009

  • On that day, however, his first as a 'prison outworker' at the East Midlands animal sanctuary and farm run by Joan's family, Roberts betrayed no hint of the terrors that lay in store for his hosts.

    Home | Mail Online 2009

  • Mr. Manicore’s father had been a jobbing tailor and his mother an outworker in the garment trade, but Thomas, their child, was cut from different cloth.

    The Dressmaker Posie Graeme-Evans 2010

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