worker
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: From Middle English werkere, worcher, wercher, equivalent to work + -er. Displaced the older term wright, from Old English wyrhta.
Base: work
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
form: workers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who works: a person who performs labor for a living; traditionally, especially, manual labor.
pos: noun
examples: Near-synonym: employee
Fret not thy ſelfe becauſe of euill doers, neither bee thou enuious againſt the workers of iniquitie.
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.
gloss: A nonreproductive social insect, such as ant, bee, termite, or wasp.
pos: noun
gloss: A nonreproductive social insect, such as ant, bee, termite, or wasp.
pos: noun
tags: rare
gloss: A thread performing one instance of a particular task within a program.
pos: noun
examples: This FTP client spawns a separate worker for each file to be uploaded.
Synonyms: proletarian
worker
Antonyms: boss
chief
director
employer
leader
manager
idler
scrounger
Related words: :Category:Occupations
Derived words: 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
co-worker
coworker
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
hard worker
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
link worker
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
second-storey 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
vibe 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
Translations:
lang: Breton
word: labourerez
lang: Czech
word: dělnice
lang: Finnish
word: työläinen
lang: French
word: ouvrier
lang: French
word: ouvrière
lang: Georgian
word: მუშა
roman: muša
lang: German
word: Arbeiterin
lang: German
word: Arbeitsameise
lang: German
word: Arbeitsbiene
lang: German
word: Arbeitstermite (termite)
lang: German
word: Arbeitswespe
lang: Hungarian
word: dolgozó
lang: Indonesian
word: pekerja
lang: Norman
word: ouvriyi
lang: Polish
word: robotnica
lang: Portuguese
word: operário
lang: Romanian
word: albină lucrătoare
lang: Russian
word: рабо́чий
roman: rabóčij
lang: Russian
word: рабо́чая пчела́
roman: rabóčaja pčelá
lang: Russian
word: рабо́чая оса́
roman: rabóčaja osá
lang: Spanish
word: obrera
lang: Vietnamese
word: thợ