miner
IPA: mˈaɪnɝ
noun
- A person who works in a mine.
- An operator of ordnance mines and similar explosives.
- Any bird of one of several species of South American ovenbirds in the genus Geositta.
- (cryptocurrencies) Software or hardware that mines, or creates new units of cryptocurrency; someone engaged in mining.
- Any bird of one of four species of Australian endemic honeyeaters in the genus Manorina.
- A surname.
- A minor city in Mississippi County and Scott County, Missouri, United States.
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Examples of "miner" in Sentences
- The typical workweek for a miner is 60 hours, according to workers.
- One miner is shown being carried out of the mine having been overcome by the poisonous fumes.
- Massey Energy Co., the nation's sixth-largest coal miner, is exploring strategic alternatives, including a possible sale, according to people familiar with the matter.
- *** Metals and mining Massey Energy, the U. S.'s sixth-largest coal miner, is exploring strategic alternatives, including a possible sale, according to people familiar with the matter.
- Cliffs Natural Resources added 3.7% and Freeport McMoran gained 2.9%, while Massey Energy jumped 5.8% amid reports the Richmond, Va., miner is exploring a potential sale of the company.
- If all goes according to plan, the first miner is expected to be lifted to safety early Wednesday morning, more than two months after the accident that left the men sealed off from the world above.
- Springfield, Ill.: What was the major medical help that NASA provided which seemed to help the most -- general health care, specialized health issues that a certain miner may have had, or dietary suggestions?
- Areva also could sell assets, such as its Transmission & Distribution unit, which makes high-voltage equipment for substations, or its 26.43% stake in French miner Eramet SA, the people familiar with the matter say.
- I've knowed them to, maybe when somebody'd be out or didn't come in (maybe it would be a chucker or maybe it would be a machine runner — what we called a miner), well, they'd give you so many candles (we used to use candles, you see) and send them down and tell them to stay down.
- Rusal's Mr. Vekselberg said in the letter that Mr. Potanin's statement that "the current market price of Norilsk reflects a fair valuation [of the company] in the current market conditions supports Rusal's worries that the potential of the miner is not properly realized in the interests of all shareholders."
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