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[ wur-ker ] / ˈwɜr kər / SEE SYNONYMS FOR worker ON THESAURUS.COM
nouna person or thing that works. a laborer or employee: steel workers. a person engaged in a particular field, activity, or cause: a worker in psychological research; a worker for the Republican Party. Entomology. - a member of a caste of sexually underdeveloped, nonreproductive bees, specialized to collect food and maintain the hive.
- a similar member of a specialized caste of ants, termites, or wasps.
Printing. one of a set of electrotyped plates used to print from (contrasted with molder2). any of several rollers covered with card clothing that work in combination with the stripper rollers and the cylinder in the carding of fibers. Origin of workerFirst recorded in 1300–50, worker is from the Middle English word werker, worcher. See work, -er1 OTHER WORDS FROM workernon·work·er, nounsub·work·er, nounWords nearby workerworkbox, work camp, workday, worked, worked-up, worker, worker director, worker participation, worker-priest, workers' compensation, workers' compensation insurance Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for workerThe US and the UK have taken different approaches to helping workers through the Covid-19 pandemic. Despite wildly different approaches, the US and UK are seeing identical declines in hours worked|Dan Kopf|September 17, 2020|Quartz From Washington to Berlin, officials are scrambling to find the best ways to help workers. Job markets in the US and Europe are surprisingly similar|Dan Kopf|September 16, 2020|Quartz The pandemic has made Britain’s economy even more British, as workers born in the EU walk away. European workers are fleeing the UK economy during the pandemic|John Detrixhe|September 16, 2020|Quartz That means there are generally enough workers for three to four queens to each lead off a swarm of workers and create new colonies. Quacks and toots help young honeybee queens avoid deadly duels|Sharon Oosthoek|September 14, 2020|Science News For Students
Unsurprisingly, workers at TransDigm’s companies often feel expendable. The Big Corporate Rescue and the America That’s Too Small to Save|by Lydia DePillis, Justin Elliott and Paul Kiel|September 12, 2020|ProPublica “We thought it must be the children playing some game,” a worker at the school told Reuters. Taliban: We Slaughtered 100+ Kids Because Their Parents Helped America|Sami Yousafzai|December 16, 2014|DAILY BEAST We meet a worker named Joan, who tries to escape but is dragged back in after sustaining a gory walker bite on her arm. The Walking Dead’s ‘Slabtown’: The Real Source of Terror Isn’t Walkers, It’s Rape|Melissa Leon|November 3, 2014|DAILY BEAST Then there is the fact that officially every French worker is entitled to 31 days of paid vacation. Obama’s Extravagant Summer Break? More Like, America’s Vacation-Deficit Disorder|Clive Irving|August 10, 2014|DAILY BEAST There is one theory that they were both exposed by a Liberian worker in the contamination crew who fell ill. ‘He Could Have Brought Ebola Here’: Minnesota Widow on Her Husband|Michael Daly|July 30, 2014|DAILY BEAST One worker was shot point blank in the chest, another in the shoulder. Brooklyn Shooting Hits Close to Bill de Blasio’s Park Slope Home|Michael Daly|July 1, 2014|DAILY BEAST Indeed, there wasn't a worker in the house that was not disgusted with his laziness. The Tale of Buster Bumblebee|Arthur Scott Bailey Each person received pay according to his value as a worker, the record being kept by the foreman of his group. Stories of the Badger State|Reuben Gold Thwaites Engels pleaded he was already over busy with those tasks, which show him to have been so patient and prolific a worker. The Art of Lecturing|Arthur M. (Arthur Morrow) Lewis But there are two points of view in this question—the point of view of the management and that of the worker. To Him That Hath|Ralph Connor They are deceived: the mason builds for the fire, the worker toils for the thief. The Legend of Ulenspiegel, Vol. II (of 2)|Charles de Coster
British Dictionary definitions for worker
nouna person or thing that works, usually at a specific joba good worker; a research worker an employee in an organization, as opposed to an employer or manager a manual labourer or other employee working in a manufacturing or other industry any other member of the working class a sterile female member of a colony of bees, ants, or wasps that forages for food, cares for the larvae, etc Derived forms of workerworkerless, adjectiveCollins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Words related to workeremployee, trader, peasant, laborer, slave, help, stiff, toiler, breadwinner, hand, serf, artisan, operative, proletarian, craftsperson, wage earner, blue collar, nine-to-fiver, tradesperson, white collar |