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How to pronounce ragpicker in English?

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Type Words
Type of unskilled person

Examples of ragpicker

ragpicker
In early October, a ragpicker found his sackcloth-swathed corpse in a garbage dump at Elancourt, near Versailles.
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He was as frugal as a ragpicker, carefully kept a record of each shilling tip, constantly worried about money.
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Since then, his wife, a ragpicker, found two other broken models as she scoured the garbage dump, and he paid to have them repaired.
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Kaur's ease with the difficult language enables her to switch seamlessly from a poor ragpicker to her impersonation of a wealthy corporate executive.
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More examples
  • An unskilled person who picks up rags from trash cans and public dumps as a means of livelihood
  • A player who frequently picks up low-value cards, merely to reduce their point count.