| 词汇 | picker |
| 释义 | picker noun[ C ] uk /ˈpɪk.ər/ us /ˈpɪk.ɚ/ pickernoun[C] (CHOOSE)mainly US a person who chooses a particular thing: 选择者;挑选者 stock pickerTraditional stock pickers (= people who choose companies in which others should invest) are being replaced by computer programs.传统的股票掮客即将被电脑程序取代。 Taking and choosing adopt adopted adoption appoint bags I...idiom be your best betidiom cull empanel faute de mieux favoured filterable first choice plump for something/someone Robin Hood select selection selective skim you name itidiom you pays your money and you takes your choice/chanceidiom pickernoun[C] (COLLECT)a person or a machine that picks crops: 采摘者；采摘机 fruit pickerHe's looking for work as a fruit picker. cotton pickerSharecroppers were displaced by tractors and mechanized cotton pickers. a person who works in a supermarket or warehouse getting the things from the shelves that people have ordered over the internet : Pickers take goods off the shelves, and delivery drivers take the goods to the customer. The company's marketing manager joined the company as a warehouse picker. Farmers & farm workers crofter dairymaid farmer farmhand gentleman farmer homesteader landholder market gardener non-farmer orchardist pastoralist peasant peon ploughman rancher ryot sharecropper squatter truck farmer yeoman pickernoun[C] (MUSIC)a person who plays an instrument such as a guitar, especially in country music(= music based on traditional music from the western and southern US): He has been a bluegrass picker for nearly 50 years. The banjo picker was among the session musicians who played on the new album. He is widely regarded as the finest guitar picker operating out of this town. Musicians accompanist accordionist arranger artist bandleader concertmaster cornetist crossover drum major drummer lyrist mandolinist mariachi mastersinger minstrel second violin session musician sideman sight-reader soloist You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Folk & ethnic music See alsolitter picker trash picker waste picker picker | American Dictionarypicker noun[ C ] us/ˈpɪk·ər/ a person or machine that picks crops: fruit pickers picker | Business Englishpicker noun[ C ] USuk /ˈpɪkər/us COMMERCE a person whose job is to choose items that have been ordered by a customer: Because everything has to be scanned in, the picker cannot accidentally select the wrong product. FINANCE, STOCK MARKET a person who chooses particular shares to invest in: Traditional stock pickers are being replaced by computer programs. PRODUCTION a person whose job is to remove fruit, cotton, etc. from a tree or plant when it is ready: An average picker fills eight bins of pears a day, making roughly $160. a fruit/strawberry/cotton picker Examples of pickerpicker To take the garbage pickers on at this rate would increase their costs and would bring about the additional cost of security benefits. A final factor contributes to the low income of garbage pickers and this relates to their involvement in the international economy. There was no system for removal of rubbish such as disposable nappies left by the pickers. At intervals the nit pickers uttered a mysterious slogan: 'hing ting chhat'. Sanitary audit of the orchard revealed multiple opportunities for contamination of blueberries by pickers. To some extent, the mushroom pickers' migration patterns have promoted effects of inverse accommodation in the population. If garbage pickers were to become regular employees, the price of waste paper would rise by at least three times and it would not he worthwhile the company buying it. The price is more likely to relate to the individual picker and the regularity with which he sells to the warehouse. The garbage picker may be excluded from real opportunities within the urban economy, but, nevertheless, his work is closely integrated into the modern economy. The garbage picker appears to work for himself but is in fact part of an industrial organisation. The cotton was picked from the six central rows of each treatment replicate with an experimental two-row picker. I should have thought it very difficult, in fact quite impossible, to bring in hop-pickers and fruit-pickers. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We were asking for positive discrimination in favour of shoes which were medically sound, not in favour of the wedge heels and the winkle-pickers. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The pickers have been able to make their own tax returns in the usual manner. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We cannot get the price quite out of range of other soft fruit without the danger of diverting pickers from other fruits. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 See all examples of picker These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. 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