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• worker — work‧er [ˈwɜːkə ǁ ˈwɜːrkər] noun [countable] HUMAN RESOURCES one of the people who work for an organization or business, and are below the level of manager: • There are new health and safety regulations for factory workers. • Many office workers… …   Financial and business terms

• worker — worker, workman, workingman, laborer, craftsman, handicraftsman, mechanic, artisan, hand, operative, roustabout can all mean one who earns his living by labor, especially by manual labor. Worker, the most comprehensive and least specific of these …   New Dictionary of Synonyms

• worker — index apprentice, artisan, employee Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 worker …   Law dictionary

• Worker — Work er, n. 1. One who, or that which, works; a laborer; a performer; as, a worker in brass. [1913 Webster] Professors of holiness, but workers of iniquity. Shak. [1913 Webster] 2. (Zo[ o]l.) One of the neuter, or sterile, individuals of the… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• worker — ► NOUN 1) a person who works. 2) a person who achieves a specified thing: a miracle worker. 3) a neuter or undeveloped female bee, wasp, ant, etc., large numbers of which perform the basic work of a colony …   English terms dictionary

• worker — [wʉr′kər] n. 1. a person, animal, or thing that works; specif., a person who is employed to do physical or mental work for wages, esp. in order to earn a living, as in a trade, industry, business, office, etc. or on a farm, ranch, etc. 2. a… …   English World dictionary

• -worker — [wʉr′kər] combining form a person who works in a (specified) industry or place or with (specified) materials or equipment [dockworker, steelworker] * * * …   Universalium

• worker — as a type of bee, 1747, agent noun from WORK (Cf. work) (v.) …   Etymology dictionary

• worker — [n] person who is employed artisan, blue collar*, breadwinner, company person, craftsperson, employee, hand, help, laborer, nine to fiver*, operative, peasant, proletarian, serf, slave, stiff, toiler, trader, tradesperson, wage earner, white… …   New thesaurus

• -worker — [wʉr′kər] combining form a person who works in a (specified) industry or place or with (specified) materials or equipment [dockworker, steelworker] …   English World dictionary

• worker — n. 1) to hire, take on a worker 2) to retrain; train workers 3) to organize, unionize workers 4) to dismiss, fire, sack (colloq.) a worker; to make a worker redundant (as by eliminating her/his job) (BE) 5) an efficient, hard, indefatigable;… …   Combinatory dictionary