Jobs vocabulary

People who work outside

a traffic warden
someone who enforces parking rules and gives out tickets to drivers who park their cars illegally

...A traffic warden gave me a ticket for parking on a double yellow line.

a bicycle courier
someone who delivers letters and parcels within a city (usually in the business district) by bike = person who carries important messages or documents for someone else.

...I want to have this package delivered by motorcycle courier.

a road sweeper
someone who brushes up and collects litter on pavements and streets


...a carpet sweeper (= a machine for cleaning carpets)
...a road sweeper (= a person whose job is cleaning the roads)

People who work in newspapers or magazines.

an agony aunt [uk]
someone who answers people's emotional, work or family problems
a person, usually a woman, who publicly gives advice to people with personal problems, especially in a regular magazine or newspaper article

a gossip columnist
someone who writes about what famous people are doing, what parties they go to and who's dating who
=gossip column [noun] the part of a newspaper in which you find stories about the social and private lives of famous people

...a gossip/sports columnist
...She's a columnist for USA Today.

an editor
the person who is responsible for what is written in a newspaper

...She's a senior editor in the reference department of a publishing company.
...Who is the current editor of the Times?

People who work in politics

a canvasser
someone who goes to people's houses and tries to persuade them to vote for a particular politician or political party in an election (canvassers are usually volunteers, they don't get paid for this work)OBTAIN SUPPORT

...I've been out canvassing for the Labour Party every evening this week.

a spin doctor
someone who makes ideas, events and political speeches seem better than they really are. [spin-pintal]

...News coverage of the campaign can be influenced to a candidate's advantage by spin doctors.

a speech writer
someone who writes speeches for a politician

People who work with children

a child-minder
someone who looks after children in her/his house during the day while the children's parents are working

a nursery school teacher
someone who cares for and teaches young children (3 – 5 year-olds) before they go to primary or infants school

People who work with food

a cook
someone who cooks and prepares food

...She's a wonderful cook.
...He's an excellent cook.


a sous-chef
a chef who works below the main chef and who is directly in charge of what is produced in the kitchen

a baker
someone who makes bread and cakes

a chef
a cook who has qualifications and is very skilled at cooking

...He is one of the top chefs in Britain.
...She is head-chef at the Waldorf-Astoria.

Vocabulary

a whiz at something [EXPERT]orang handal
someone who is very good or fast at a particular activity or task
a person with a very high level of skill or knowledge in a particular subject

...A police car whizzed by, on its way to the accident.[MOVE FAST]bersiung [laju]zoom....
...We whizzed through the rehearsal, so that we'd be finished by lunchtime.
...Time just whizzes past when you're enjoying yourself.
...a computer whizz
...He's a whizz at poker.
...Everyone knows at least one computer whiz.
...Jo was one of those whiz kids who are millionaires by the time they're 25.

a pager [ a bleeper]
a small machine which receives signals from a telephone

right away/now
immediately

...You'd better leave right now.
...I need this right away.

a favour
something you do for someone to help them out

She rang up to ask me a favour.
Could you do me a favour - would you feed my cat this weekend?