worker — English Dictionary

Noun

1. One who works: a person who performs labor for a living; traditionally, especially, manual labor.

   Synonyms

   employee

   Examples

   Near-synonym: employee

   Fret not thy ſelfe becauſe of euill doers, neither bee thou enuious againſt the workers of iniquitie.

   More examples (4)

   Writer Ta Chen, in a statistical study of industrial labor in China in 1933, recorded that 66.6 percent of the total number of workers in the four main industrial regions of Kwangtung were women. In Shun-te, 81.2 percent of the labor force were women.

   Manganism has been known about since the 19th century, when miners exposed to ores containing manganese […] began to totter, slur their speech and behave like someone inebriated. The poisoning was irreversible, and soon ended in psychosis and death. Nowadays workers are exposed to far lower doses and manganism is rare.

   Although the radiation levels identified are high, a threat to human health is very unlikely because apart from workers at the site, no-one goes there.

   That would allow employers to keep some tip money for themselves, as long as each worker made at least the full federal minimum wage of $7.25 an hour.

2. A nonreproductive social insect, such as ant, bee, termite, or wasp.

3. A nonreproductive social insect, such as ant, bee, termite, or wasp. A female ant, bee, termite or wasp.

   Usage

   • Rare

4. A thread performing one instance of a particular task within a program.

   Examples

   This FTP client spawns a separate worker for each file to be uploaded.

Noun

1. a person who works at a specific occupation

   Antonyms

   nonworker

   Broader terms

   actordoer

   Examples

   he is a good worker

2. a member of the working class (not necessarily employed)

   Synonyms

   proletarianprole

   Broader terms

   commonercommon person

   Examples

   workers of the world — unite!

3. sterile member of a colony of social insects that forages for food and cares for the larvae

   Broader terms

   insect

4. a person who acts and gets things done

   Synonyms

   actordoer

   Broader terms

   causal agentcausecausal agency

   Examples

   he's a principal actor in this affair

   when you want something done, get a doer

   More examples (1)

   he's a miracle worker