accountant
/əˈkaʊntənt/
nounsomeone whose job is to keep or check financial accounts
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1. My mom is an accountant.
2. "My accountant handles that."
3. Some of those titles include accountants, biochemists, loggers, foresters, geologists, designers, tree planters, engineers, and marketers.
4. This accountant is passive aggressive in company conflicts.
5. "Does your accountant know?"
actor
/ˈæktɝ/
nounsomeone whose job involves performing in movies, plays, or series
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1. Movies are usually labeled as the work of the actors or director.
2. Appropriate actions include warning, suspending or terminating a bad actor's account.
3. Joke-busters Before the cameras roll, actors carefully memorize their lines.
4. Actors performed a show.
5. In the classical world, actors wore masks.
administrator
/ədˈmɪnəˌstɹeɪtɝ/
nounsomeone whose job is managing and organizing the work of a company or institution
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1. Hospital administrators are fearing shortages in staffing and supplies and in cash.
2. My mother was an administrator.
3. Hospital administrators also organized a review of Duntsch’s cases.
4. Postsecondary education administrators oversee student services, academics, and faculty research at colleges and universities.
5. Database administrators usually have a bachelor’s degree in management information systems or a computer-related field.
architect
/ˈɑɹkəˌtɛkt/
nouna person whose job is designing buildings and typically supervising their construction
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1. Architects place plumbing and telephones.
2. 'Architect'.
3. Architects are big dreamers.
4. Today's word is architect.
5. The word architect is a noun.
builder
/ˈbɪɫdɝ/
nounsomeone who builds or repairs houses and buildings, often as a job
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1. - Builders are so in demand right now.
2. The builder built a building by the school.
3. Alright, builders, hands off.
4. The builders finally show up.
5. Suddenly we have loads of contractors, builders above us.
chef
/ˈʃɛf/
nouna highly trained cook who often cooks for hotels or restaurants
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1. Chefs mix big vats of vegetables, grill lines of lamb chops, and top rows of dishes with garnishes.
2. So chef submitted 1,200 recipes.
3. Chef kiss hand motion.
4. Chefs combine the sushi rice with other foods or ingredients.
5. Chef that butter sauce is crazy.
cleaner
/ˈkɫinɝ/
nounsomeone whose job is to clean other people’s houses, offices, etc.
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1. Your cleaners have no protection.
2. Multi-purpose cleaner These cleaners are a staple in every kitchen.
3. Multi-purpose cleaner These cleaners are a staple in every kitchen.
4. Household cleaners include laundry detergent, dish soap, castile soaps.
5. Cleaners are available at your local home, hardware, or tile store.
dentist
/ˈdɛnɪst/, /ˈdɛntəst/, /ˈdɛntɪst/
nounsomeone who is licensed to fix and care for our teeth
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1. The dentist did a lot of work in his mouth for a long time.
2. Typically, dentists give patients a dose of half nitrous oxide and half oxygen at about 5 liters per minute.
3. The dentist gave him huge whopping teeth.
4. Dentists also were part of the advertising game.
5. Several decades later, another dentist gave the candy its current name.
doctor
/ˈdɑktɝ/, /ˈdɔktɝ/
nounsomeone who has studied medicine and treats sick or injured people
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1. But they knew doctors could not heat a patient's body to a high temperature.
2. When the lights went on, the young man saw that his neighbor was the doctor who had examined him earlier.
3. This involves a doctor examining the cervix through a microscope, and possibly taking a small biopsy of tissue for closer examination.
4. Without consulting my doctor or weaning myself off, I just stopped taking my antidepressants.
5. First, doctors will sign an official hospital document with the birth details on palace letterhead.
engineer
/ˈɛndʒəˈnɪɹ/
nouna person who designs, fixes, or builds roads, machines, bridges, etc.
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1. Engineers thought so, too.
2. Engineers also tried.
3. My self engineered safe space, for women.
4. American policies engineered our segregated homes.
5. Today scientists, technologists, businessmen, engineers don't have any personal responsibility for the consequences of their actions.
factory worker
/fˈæktɚɹi wˈɜːkɚ/
nounsomeone who is employed in a factory and works there
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flight attendant
/flˈaɪt ɐtˈɛndənt/
nouna person who works on a plane to bring passengers meals and take care of them
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1. - Just-- - A flight attendant who's paying attention.
2. You know, The Flight Attendant.
3. Even flight attendants themselves follow this rule!
4. Flight attendants’ seats are much less comfortable than passengers’ ones.
5. Well our mom is a flight attendant
footballer
/fˈʊtbɔːlɚ/
nounsomeone especially a professional who plays football
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1. Even the footballer makes himself a priority when he comes onto the pitch.
2. Towards the end of the match, the footballer said she was running on fumes.
3. That footballer is truly amazing.
4. That footballer is truly amazing.
5. Then on the screen he is just another footballer.
guide
/ˈɡaɪd/
nouna person whose job is to take tourists to places of interest and show them around
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1. The storytelling guided the data out there.
2. At the same time, the leader guides a talk about bullying.
3. Two frontiers will guide this transformation.
4. Computer guided milling machine cuts to parts.
5. In the jungle, the moon guides the way for some old friends of ours.
hairdresser
/ˈhɛɹˌdɹɛsɝ/
nounsomeone whose job is to cut, wash and style hair
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1. Who is your hairdresser?
2. A hairdresser cannot always successfully cut their own hair.
3. One of them, Abdullah Kurdi, is a hairdresser by trade.
4. Hairdressers speak a more complicated language than 'a few layers'
5. Hairdressers make a lot of money, girl.
journalist
/ˈdʒɝnəɫəst/, /ˈdʒɝnəɫɪst/
nounsomeone who prepares news to be broadcast or writes for newspapers, magazines, or news websites
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1. Most journalists include NOAA's storm surge advisories in their reports as well.
2. Now, the journalist meant well.
3. the journalist asked.
4. Journalist rely heavily on academics.
5. The journalists had.
lawyer
/ˈɫɔɪɝ/, /ˈɫɔjɝ/
nouna person who practices or studies law, advises people about the law or represents them in court
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1. 70% of the countries lawyers are female.
2. Lawyers play a huge part in animal activism.
3. Lawyers have a very important role in situations like this.
4. So are lawyers.
5. In her written decisions, lawyers hear a voice of reasoned humanity.
bank manager
/bˈæŋk mˈænɪdʒɚ/
nouna person whose job involves being in charge of a specific branch of a bank
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model
/ˈmɑdəɫ/
nouna person who is employed by an artist to pose for a painting, photograph, etc.
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1. The company will begin taking pre-orders for the Model 3 in March.
2. Our model of atoms has changed a number of times since we first conceived it, and the current one will certainly not be the last.
3. Modeling 101. -
4. First anti-poverty advocates were explicitly designing models.
5. This program will model debate and dissent.
musician
/mjuˈzɪʃən/
nounsomeone who plays a musical instrument or writes music, especially as a profession
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1. So musicians talk about deliberate practice.
2. With the first black president in the White House, musicians took up the empowerment song.
3. Musicians are at least as neurotic as everybody else, easily.
4. Indeed, ten generations of Bachs were musicians.
5. Soon, other musicians joined their group.
nurse
/ˈnɝs/
nounsomeone who has been trained to care for injured or sick people, particularly in a hospital
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1. I'll be your neighbour, your nurse, your housekeeper, your companion.
2. In just three years, nurse vacancies nearly doubled.
3. So, nurses do wear nursing uniforms.
4. Nurses required, okay.
5. Each female only nurses her own cubs.
pilot
/ˈpaɪɫət/
nounsomeone whose job is to operate the controls of an aircraft
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1. Pilots always lose pens.
2. Narrator: Pilots also lacked proper training with the MCAS.
3. - Pilots get discounts at a lot of places.
4. Pilots earn between $150,000 and $250,000 a year.
5. Pilots mostly fly the plane through the autopilot.
police officer
/pəlˈiːs ˈɑːfɪsɚ/
nounsomeone whose job is to protect people, catch criminals, and make sure that laws are obeyed
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1. Police officers do.
2. Police Officer: Pull over!
3. A president likes police officers.
4. Police officers get badges.
5. Police officer buys a homeless man shoes.
policeman
/pəˈɫismən/
nouna man whose job is to protect people, catch criminals, and make sure that laws are obeyed
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1. The tourist finds a policeman.
2. Two policemen arrive quickly.
3. Policemen have rules.
4. When about midway of a certain block the policeman suddenly slowed his walk.
5. You got a policeman.
policewoman
/pəˈɫiˌswʊmən/
nouna woman whose job is to protect people, catch criminals, and make sure that laws are obeyed
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1. "She's at the doctor's," a policewoman says.
2. Then Mel tells the policewoman her story.
3. the policewoman asks Mel. 'Are you famous?'
4. The persistent rumors about Heather eventually reached the ears of a local policewoman.
5. Leading the line behind the van, was this policewoman.
receptionist
/ɹiˈsɛpʃənɪst/, /ɹɪˈsɛpʃənɪst/
nouna person who greets and deals with people arriving at or calling a hotel, office building, doctor's office, etc.
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1. I'm a receptionist.
2. I'm a receptionist.
3. The receptionist loved it too.
4. That poor receptionist never stood a chance.
5. The receptionist is a great person.
shop assistant
/ʃˈɑːp ɐsˈɪstənt/
nouna salesperson; someone whose job is to serve or help customers in a shop
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sales assistant
/seɪlz ɐsɪstənt/
nounsomeone whose job involves helping and selling things to the customers and visitors of a store, etc.
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soldier
/ˈsoʊɫdʒɝ/
nounsomeone who serves in an army, particularly a person who is not an officer
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1. A very strict officer was talking to some new soldiers whom he had to train.
2. Thousands of people stand in The Mall to see the Queen and the soldiers go past.
3. - Where soldiers patrol the streets.
4. Soldiers when in desperate straits lose the sense of fear.
5. Soldiers have a name for these clips.
taxi driver
/tˈæksi dɹˈaɪvɚ/
nounsomeone whose job involves driving a taxi and taking people to different places
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1. And in new DELHI, this Taxi Driver has turned his car into a Makeshift Ambulance.
2. Apparently he's a Taxi Driver.
3. -Alright, this next one is from "Taxi Driver."
4. Well, this is a quote from the movie Taxi Driver.
5. In Taxi Driver, Marty and I wanted Travis Bickle to cut his hair into a mohawk.
teacher
/ˈtitʃɝ/
nounsomeone who teaches things to people, particularly in a school
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1. Teachers wondered why some students were good at math but other students were not.
2. She was a good teacher, and she laughed a lot with the children in her class.
3. So teachers have the lowest rate of Alzheimer's as a profession.
4. Teachers can ask clarification questions instantaneously.
5. These teachers also instruct students on weight training, flexibility, aerobics, and other workout styles, often developing programs for people with special needs or goals.
vet
/ˈvɛt/
nouna doctor who is trained to treat animals
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1. We vet people.
2. Memory, vets are soldiers.
3. Participants were vetted.
4. They vetted each case.
5. The Chinese government vets all communication.
waiter
/ˈweɪtɝ/
nouna man who brings people food and drinks in restaurants, cafes, etc.
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1. one waiter asks.
2. The waiter comes in.
3. The waiter looked over Nick's head.
4. A waiter does this.
5. Waiter: Watch your fingers.
waitress
/ˈweɪtɹəs/
nouna woman who brings people food and drinks in restaurants, cafes, etc.
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1. When he saw that the restaurant had some nice fresh rolls, he asked the waitress for one, and she brought it.
2. Waitress brings your food.
3. Waitress: No, you're fine.
4. Waitress: The total is going to be 65.27.
5. Waitress: The total is going to be 65.27.
