worker
Listen:Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
worker/ˈwɜːkə(r)/
▶noun
- 1 a person who works.
■ informal a person who works hard.
- 2 a neuter or undeveloped female bee, wasp, ant, etc., large numbers of which perform the basic work of a colony.
- 3 a person who achieves a specified thing: a worker of miracles.
'worker' also found in these Oxford entries:
agent noun
- artisan
- babu
- barefoot doctor
- boy
- brakeman
- brazier
- case history
- caseload
- casual
- chargehand
- confederate
- co-worker
- craftsman
- desk jockey
- domestic
- dramaturge
- ergative
- extern
- farmhand
- fettler
- foreman
- freelance
- gandy dancer
- Gastarbeiter
- girl Friday
- grunt
- guest worker
- hammer and sickle
- hand
- hind
- jackaroo
- journeyman
- key worker
- knowledge worker
- lad
- lay
- layoff
- mason
- mechanic
- mechanical
- millhand
- neuter
- nurse
- nurseryman
- Okie
- operative
- paper-pusher
- peon
- recruit
