 3 definitions found
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
worker
noun
1: a person who works at a specific occupation; "he is a good
worker" [ant: {nonworker}]
2: a member of the working class (not necessarily employed);
"workers of the world--unite!" [syn: {proletarian}, {prole}]
3: sterile member of a colony of social insects that forages
for food and cares for the larvae
4: a person who acts and gets things done; "he's a principal
actor in this affair"; "when you want something done get a
doer"; "he's a miracle worker" [syn: {actor}, {doer}]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Worker \Work"er\, noun
1. One who, or that which, works; a laborer; a performer; as,
a worker in brass.
Professors of holiness, but workers of iniquity.
--Shak.
2. (Zo["o]l.) 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}.
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
112 Moby Thesaurus words for "worker":
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
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