worker — Dizionario inglese

Sostantivo

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

   Sinonimi

   employee

   Esempi

   Near-synonym: employee

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

   Altri esempi (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.

   Uso

   • raro

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

   Esempi

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

Sostantivo

1. a person who works at a specific occupation

   Contrari

   nonworker

   Termini più generali

   actordoer

   Esempi

   he is a good worker

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

   Sinonimi

   proletarianprole

   Termini più generali

   commonercommon person

   Esempi

   workers of the world — unite!

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

   Termini più generali

   insect

4. a person who acts and gets things done

   Sinonimi

   actordoer

   Termini più generali

   causal agentcausecausal agency

   Esempi

   he's a principal actor in this affair

   when you want something done, get a doer

   Altri esempi (1)

   he's a miracle worker