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Noun worker has 4 senses
- worker(n = noun.person) Array - a person who works at a specific occupation; "he is a good worker" is a kind of individual, mortal, person, somebody, someone, soul
- worker(n = noun.person) prole, proletarian - a member of the working class (not necessarily employed); "workers of the world--unite!" is a member of labor, labour, proletariat, working class
- worker(n = noun.animal) Array - sterile member of a colony of social insects that forages for food and cares for the larvae; Array is a kind of insect
- worker(n = noun.person) actor, doer - a person who acts and gets things done; "he's a principal actor in this affair"; "when you want something done get a doer"; "he's a miracle worker" is a kind of individual, mortal, person, somebody, someone, soul
has particulars: caster, finisher, assistant, help, helper, supporter, beater, bill poster, bill sticker, poster, bleacher, boater, boatman, waterman, carter, charcoal burner, accumulator, collector, gatherer, comber, cornhusker, driver, employable, employee, free-lance, free lance, freelance, freelancer, independent, self-employed person, gutter, hanger, lamplighter, melter, moonlighter, mopper, muzzler, nailer, oiler, part-timer, peeler, planter, plier, plyer, processor, pruner, trimmer, dragger, puller, tugger, quarrier, quarryman, ragsorter, blackleg, rat, scab, strikebreaker, scrubber, seasonal, seasonal worker, retainer, servant, sheller, shelver, shingler, shoveler, shoveller, skidder, skilled worker, skilled workman, trained worker, hard worker, slave, striver, solderer, splicer, splitter, stainer, stemmer, stringer, sprigger, stemmer, stripper, tacker, tapper, teaser, temp, temporary, temporary worker, toiler, thrower, throwster, tier, tier up, tiler, topper, topper, trade unionist, union member, unionist, twiner, unpaid worker, volunteer, wallah, washer, winder, wiper, working girl, workmate
Antonym: nonworker
Derived forms verb work2, verb work1
is a kind of common man, common person, commoner
has particulars: dogsbody
has particulars: soldier, worker bee
Derived form verb work1
has particulars: demon, busy bee, eager beaver, live wire, sharpie, sharpy, animator, energiser, energizer, vitaliser, vitalizer, ball of fire, go-getter, whiz-kid, whizz-kid, man of action, man of deeds, ball of fire, fireball, human dynamo, powerhouse
Derived form verb work1
CIDE DICTIONARY
worker, n.
- One who, or that which, works; a laborer; a performer; as, a worker in brass. [1913 Webster]"Professors of holiness, but workers of iniquity." [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
worker, n.
1 a person who works, esp. a manual or industrial employee.
2 a neuter or undeveloped female of various social insects, esp. a bee or ant, that does the basic work of its colony.
1 a person who works, esp. a manual or industrial employee.
2 a neuter or undeveloped female of various social insects, esp. a bee or ant, that does the basic work of its colony.
Idiom
worker priest a French Roman Catholic or an Anglican priest who engages part-time in secular work.
THESAURUS
worker
actor, agent, ant, architect, army ant, artisan, assistant, author, bee, black ant, blue-collar worker, brainworker, brassworker, breadwinner, bumblebee, carpenter ant, casual, casual laborer, clothworker, common laborer, craftsman, creator, day laborer, doer, drone, emmet, employee, executant, executor, executrix, fabricator, factory worker, fieldworker, fire ant, flintworker, flunky, free lance, free-lancer, full-time worker, garmentworker, girl Friday, glassworker, goldworker, hand, handicraftsman, hired hand, hired man, hireling, honeybee, hornet, house ant, industrial worker, ironworker, jobber, jobholder, laborer, laboring man, laceworker, leatherworker, maker, man Friday, mechanic, medium, menial, mercenary, metalworker, migrant, millworker, mineworker, moiler, mover, myrmidon, navvy, needleworker, office temporary, operant, operative, operator, pensioner, performer, perpetrator, pismire, practitioner, prime mover, producer, proletarian, queen, queen bee, red ant, right-hand man, roustabout, salaried worker, self-employed person, servant, slave ant, soldier, stiff, subject, temporary, termite, toiler, wage earner, wage slave, wageworker, wasp, workgirl, workhand, working girl, workingman, workingwoman, workman, yellow jacketROGET THESAURUS
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Agent
N doer, actor, agent, performer, perpetrator, operator, executor, executrix, practitioner, worker, stager, bee, ant, working bee, termite, white ant, laboring oar, servant of all work, factotum, workman, artisan, craftsman, handicraftsman, mechanic, operative, working man, laboring man, demiurgus, hewers of wood and drawers of water, laborer, navvy, hand, man, day laborer, journeyman, charwoman, hack, mere tool, beast of burden, drudge, fag, lumper, roustabout, maker, artificer, artist, wright, manufacturer, architect, builder, mason, bricklayer, smith, forger, Vulcan, carpenter, ganger, platelayer, blacksmith, locksmith, sailmaker, wheelwright, machinist, mechanician, engineer, sempstress, semstress, seamstress, needlewoman, workwoman, tailor, cordwainer, minister, servant, representative, coworker, party to, participator in, particeps criminis, dramatis personae, personnel, quorum pars magna fui, faber est quisque fortunae suae.
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