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worker

[wur-ker]

noun

  1. a person or thing that works.

  2. a laborer or employee.

    steel workers.

  3. a person engaged in a particular field, activity, or cause.

    a worker in psychological research; a worker for the Republican Party.

  4. Entomology.

    1. a member of a caste of sexually underdeveloped, nonreproductive bees, specialized to collect food and maintain the hive.

    2. a similar member of a specialized caste of ants, termites, or wasps.

  5. Printing.one of a set of electrotyped plates used to print from (molder ).

  6. any of several rollers covered with card clothing that work in combination with the stripper rollers and the cylinder in the carding of fibers.



worker

/ ˈɜːə /

noun

  1. a person or thing that works, usually at a specific job

    a good worker

    a research worker

  2. an employee in an organization, as opposed to an employer or manager

  3. a manual labourer or other employee working in a manufacturing or other industry

  4. any other member of the working class

  5. a sterile female member of a colony of bees, ants, or wasps that forages for food, cares for the larvae, etc

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Other 51Թ Forms

  • nonworker noun
  • subworker noun
  • ˈɴǰ adjective
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of worker1

First recorded in 1300–50, worker is from the Middle English word werker, worcher. See work, -er 1
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The layoffs, which hit hundreds of workers in television, film and corporate finance, come three months after the company shed 200 workers in TV.

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But every year, a few dozen elude social workers’ determined efforts to figure out who they are.

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Josefina’s husband, a garment worker, is an undocumented immigrant from Mexico.

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Early Friday morning, he arrived on time with two workers.

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The GHF said on Thursday that eight of its local Palestinian workers were killed when Hamas attacked one of their buses.

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