Worker

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. One who works at a particular occupation or activity: an office worker.
  • n. One who does manual or industrial labor.
  • n. A member of the working class.
  • n. A member of a colony of social insects such as ants, bees, wasps, or termites, usually a sterile female but often a sexually immature individual of either sex, that performs specialized work such as building the nest, collecting and storing food, and feeding other members of the colony.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A person who performs labor for his living, especially manual labor.
  • n. A nonreproductive social insect, such as ant, bee, termite or wasp.
  • n. A thread performing one instance of a particular task within a program.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. One who, or that which, works; a laborer; a performer.
  • n. 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.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. One who or that which works; a laborer; a toiler; a performer; a doer.
  • n. In entomology, the neuter or undeveloped female of various social hymenopterous and a few other insects, as bees, ants, and termites, which collects pollen, makes honey, builds or fabricates cells or a nest, stores up food, cares for the young, herds and milks the aphids kept as cows, and performs other services for the community of which it is a member.
  • n. Maker; creator.
  • n. In a carding-machine, one of the urchins, or small card-covered cylinders.
  • n. A leather-workers' two-handled knife, used in scraping hides.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. a member of the working class (not necessarily employed)
  • n. a person who works at a specific occupation
  • n. sterile member of a colony of social insects that forages for food and cares for the larvae
  • n. a person who acts and gets things done
  • Cross Reference
    agent    artificer    smith    neuter    fertile worker   
    Variant
    ant    white   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    laborer    performer    work force    employee   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    coworker    kercher   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    employee    student    member    manager    personnel    servant    scientist    workman    organization    lawyer