'Worker' definitions:
Definition of 'worker'
(from WordNet)
noun
A person who works at a specific occupation; "he is a good worker" [ant: nonworker]
noun
A member of the working class (not necessarily employed); "workers of the world--unite!" [syn: proletarian, prole, worker]
noun
Sterile member of a colony of social insects that forages for food and cares for the larvae
noun
Definition of 'Worker'
From: GCIDE
- 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. (Zool.) One of the neuter, or sterile, individuals of the social ants, bees, and white ants. The workers are generally females having the sexual organs imperfectly developed. See Ant, and White ant, under White. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'worker'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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 jacket
Words containing 'Worker'
- construction worker,
- dock worker,
- factory worker,
- farm worker,
- fellow worker,
- garment worker,
- guest worker,
- hard worker,
- knowledge worker,
- line worker,
- migrant worker,
- miracle worker,
- power worker,
- research worker,
- seasonal worker,
- skilled worker,
- social worker,
- temporary worker,
- trained worker,
- unpaid worker,
- welfare worker,
- worker bee,
- Wire-worker,
- Wonder-worker,
- blue collar worker,
- brain-worker,
- civil rights worker,
- co-worker,
- garment-worker,
- gold-worker,
- industrial workers of the world,
- kurdistan workers party,
- medical social worker,
- silver-worker,
- united mine workers,
- power-station worker,
- united mine workers of america,
- national socialist german workers' party