worker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɜː.kə/
ipa: /ˈwɝ.kɚ/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)kə(ɹ)
Forms: form: workers
Etymology: From Middle English werkere, worcher, wercher, equivalent to work + -er. Displaced the older term wright, from Old English wyrhta.
Senses: examples: text: Near-synonym: employee
text: Fret not thy ſelfe becauſe of euill doers, neither bee thou enuious againſt the workers of iniquitie.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Psalms 37:1:
text: 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.
ref: 1986, Janice G. Raymond, A Passion for Friends: Toward a Philosophy of Female Affection, Boston: Beacon Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 124:
text: 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.
ref: 2014 April 21, “Subtle effects”, in The Economist, volume 411, number 8884:
text: 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.
ref: 2017 February 2, Jeff Farrell, “Fukushima nuclear disaster: Lethal levels of radiation detected in leak seven years after plant meltdown in Japan”, in The Independent, London:
text: 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.
ref: 2018 March 24, Lydia DePillis, “Few noticed, but Congress just banned restaurants from skimming tips”, in CNN:
coordinate_terms: boss
manager
employer[coinstantial]]>
glosses: One who works: a person who performs labor for a living; traditionally, especially, manual labor.
glosses: A nonreproductive social insect, such as ant, bee, termite, or wasp.
glosses: A nonreproductive social insect, such as ant, bee, termite, or wasp.
A female ant, bee, termite or wasp.
examples: text: This FTP client spawns a separate worker for each file to be uploaded.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A thread performing one instance of a particular task within a program.
Synonyms: word: proletarian
word: worker
Hypernyms: word: person
Hyponyms: word: laborer
word: employee
word: husbandman
word: craftsperson
word: artisan
word: operator
word: physician
word: musician
word: clerk
word: merchant
word: athlete
Derived terms: aid worker
anti-worker
antiworker
artworker
autoworker
bodyworker
brain worker
brassworker
bronzeworker
building worker
cabinetworker
camera worker
camera-worker
careworker
caseworker
clothworker
coalworker
construction worker
copperworker
counterworker
coworker
co-worker
craftworker
crowdworker
dayworker
day worker
day-worker
decoration worker
deskworker
dock worker
dockworker
domestic worker
dreamworker
enamelworker
essential worker
evilworker
exworker
faceworker
factoryworker
farm worker
farmworker
fieldworker
fireworker
fishworker
flameworker
flintworker
freezing worker
garmentworker
gasworker
gig worker
glassworker
goldworker
groundworker
guest worker
hairworker
handworker
headworker
health worker
healthy worker bias
hideworker
homeworker
houseworker
hybrid worker
ironworker
itinerant worker
key worker
keyworker
knowledge worker
laceworker
lampworker
landworker
leatherworker
lightworker
lineworker
lush worker
lush-worker
McWorker
meatworker
metalworker
migrant worker
millworker
mineworker
miracle worker
nonworker
office worker
paperworker
peace worker
pieceworker
pipeworker
playworker
poll worker
portfolio worker
postal worker
pressworker
printworker
process worker
proworker
relief worker
remote worker
replicated worker
roadworker
rootworker
ropeworker
saltworker
sanitation worker
seasonal worker
service worker
sex worker
shedworker
shellworker
shiftworker
shipworker
shock worker
shopworker
silverworker
social worker
spade-worker
spadeworker
steel-worker
steelworker
steel worker
stoneworker
storeworker
street worker
streetworker
subworker
teamworker
teleworker
threshold worker
timeworker
track worker
trackworker
underworker
undocumented worker
wageworker
war-worker
war worker
waterworker
waxworker
white-collar worker
wickerworker
wireworker
wonderworker
woodworker
woolworker
worker bee
workeress
workerism
workerist
workerless
workerlike
worker-priest
workers' compensation
workers' comp
workership
workers of the world, unite
workers' paradise
workers' party
workers' salute
youth worker
zincworker
Related terms: word: :Category:Occupations