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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

/ 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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Derived Forms

  • ˈɴǰ, adjective
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Other Word Forms

  • ԴDz·ɴǰİ noun
  • ܲ·ɴǰİ noun
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Word 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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Kerry added the way the chancellor is treating salons, which overwhelmingly employ women, "totally goes against the objectives of the government" in growing the economy and supporting workers.

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And after years of struggles, workers say the industry is at an inflection point.

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County, the city of Los Angeles recently gave its workers significant pay raises, which are now a major factor in a nearly $1-billion budget deficit, along with ballooning legal payouts and a weakening national economy.

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Samples from the vomit of students have been sent for lab testing, and police say they have questioned people handling the food, from cooks to packers to delivery workers.

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The industry, including the Port of Long Beach, transportation workers and far-flung warehouses, contributed nearly $300 billion in direct economic output and an estimated $93.3 billion in tax revenue in 2022, according to the report.

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