Gastarbeiter

[ gahst-ahr-bahy-tuhr ]

noun

, German.

, plural Gast·ar·beit·er [gahst, -ah, r, -bahy-t, uh, r].

1. guest worker.

Example Sentences

Ulrich Herbert, history professor at the University Freiburg, said the "Gastarbeiter" experience was already a first step in a slow process.

From Reuters

Even the Turkish workers who were brought in from the 1960s to help with post-war rebuilding were labelled "Gastarbeiter" - temporary "guest workers."

From Reuters

German language requirements for citizenship would also be eased for members of the so-called Gastarbeiter generation, many of them Turkish, who came to Germany in the 1950s and 60s as migrant workers.

From Reuters

Her position at the heart of German society also makes Hekimoglu, 33, one of the many scientists, athletes, actors, diplomats, physicians and politicians of Turkish descent who are helping to upend decades-old prejudices and discrimination here against the country’s Gastarbeiter — the “guest workers” who came to do the hard and dirty work that others shunned — and their offspring.

From Los Angeles Times

The upswelling of ethnic Turkish pride comes 60 years after the agreement between Turkey and what was then West Germany that opened the gates for millions of Gastarbeiter.

From Los Angeles Times