pieceworker
nounEtymology From piece + worker.
1
A worker who is paid according to the number of units of work produced.
- The lowliest of employees, piece workers were paid only for each bird or mammal they stuffed, or each fossil they prepared.2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: A Natural History, page 245:
- Antonyms
- timeworker
- Related terms
- piecework, piece-work, piece work