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 Definitions of worker  [ˈwɜr kər]  

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Definition of 'worker' Random House Webster's College Dictionary 

1. (n.) worker
a person or thing that works.

2.  worker
a laborer or employee:
steel workers.

3.  worker
a member of a caste of sexually underdeveloped, nonreproductive bees, ants, wasps, or termites, specialized to collect food and maintain the colony.

Etymology:  (1300–50)

Definition of 'worker' Princeton's WordNet 

1. (noun) worker
a person who works at a specific occupation
"he is a good worker"

2. (noun) proletarian, prole, worker
a member of the working class (not necessarily employed)
"workers of the world--unite!"

3. (noun) worker
sterile member of a colony of social insects that forages for food and cares for the larvae

4. (noun) actor, doer, worker
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"


Definition of 'worker' Kernerman English Learner’s Dictionary 

1. (noun) worker
sb who works in a job without management responsibilities
The workers are threatening to go on strike.; migrant workers

2.  worker
a hard/slow/good etc. worker
indicates the way sb works
Max is a hard worker.


Definition of 'worker' Webster Dictionary 

1. (noun) worker
one who, or that which, works; a laborer; a performer; as, a worker in brass

2. (noun) worker
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


Translation of 'worker' Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary 

Sense: a person who works or who is employed in an office, a factory etc
office-workers; car-workers.

Afrikaans flag Afrikaans: werker Arabic flag Arabic: عامِل Bulgarian flag Bulgarian: работник
Brazilian flag Brazilian: trabalhador Czech flag Czech: pracovník, -ice German flag German: der/die Arbeiter(in)
Danish flag Danish: arbejder; -arbejder Greek flag Greek: εργαζόμενος, υπάλληλος Spanish flag Spanish: trabajador
Estonian flag Estonian: töötaja Farsi flag Farsi: کارگر؛ کارمند Finnish flag Finnish: työntekijä
French flag French: employé/-ée; travailleur/ Hebrew flag Hebrew: עוֹבֵד Hindi flag Hindi: श्रमिक
Croatian flag Croatian: radnik, djelatnik Hungarian flag Hungarian: dolgozó Indonesian flag Indonesian: karyawan
Icelandic flag Icelandic: starfsmaður Italian flag Italian: lavoratore, lavoratrice, Japanese flag Japanese: 従業員
Korean flag Korean: 근로자 Lithuanian flag Lithuanian: darbininkas, darbuotojas Latvian flag Latvian: strādnieks; darbinieks
Malay flag Malay: pekerja Dutch flag Dutch: arbeider Norwegian flag Norwegian: (-)ansatt; funksjonær, ar
Polish flag Polish: pracownik Persian flag Persian: کارگر؛ کارمند Pashto flag Pashto: كار ګر، زيار كښ، مزدور: (
Portuguese flag Portuguese: trabalhador Romanian flag Romanian: angajat; muncitor Russian flag Russian: служащий
Slovak flag Slovak: pracovník, -čka Slovenian flag Slovenian: delavec Serbian flag Serbian: radnik
Swedish flag Swedish: arbetare Thai flag Thai: คนงาน Turkish flag Turkish: çalışan, işçi
Taiwanese flag Taiwanese: 員工 Ukrainian flag Ukrainian: працівник Urdu flag Urdu: کام کرنے والا یا مزدور
Vietnamese flag Vietnamese: công nhân Chinese flag Chinese: 员工

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