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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 2 ).
  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

/ ˈ·Éɜ˰ìÉ™ /

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
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Derived Forms

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˜yÐÄvlog 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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Example Sentences

The transportation, trade and utilities sector is one of the county’s largest employment clusters, with an estimated 830,000 workers last year, according a report by the Los Angeles County Economic Development Corp.

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“So they send us cheap clothing and we send them accounting services. It’s a good deal. We would much rather be getting paid as accountants than getting paid as garment workers.â€

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He also rejected the military's claim that Hamas might have used the ambulances as cover, saying all the emergency workers were civilians.

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In one, he warns a social worker his son "is at constant risk" and "it's only a matter of time before the worst-case scenario happens".

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In March, a U.S. district judge ordered thousands of fired federal workers to be temporarily reinstated, but many have been put on administrative leave.

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