What does worker mean?

Definitions for worker
ˈwɜr kərwork·er

This dictionary definitions page includes all the possible meanings, example usage and translations of the word worker.

Princeton's WordNet

  1. workernoun

    a person who works at a specific occupation

    "he is a good worker"

  2. proletarian, prole, workernoun

    a member of the working class (not necessarily employed)

    "workers of the world--unite!"

  3. workernoun

    sterile member of a colony of social insects that forages for food and cares for the larvae

  4. actor, doer, workernoun

    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"

Wiktionary

  1. workernoun

    A person who performs labor for his living, especially manual labor.

  2. workernoun

    A nonreproductive social insect, such as ant, bee, termite or wasp.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Workernoun

    One that works.

    Etymology: from work.

    Ye fair nymphs, which oftentimes have loved
    The cruel worker of your kindly smarts,
    Prepare yourselves, and open wide your hearts. Edmund Spenser.

    His father was a worker in brass. 1 Kings vii. 14.

    You spoke me fair; but even then betrayed me: depart from me, you professors of holiness, but workers of iniquity. Robert South, Sermons.

Wikipedia

  1. Worker

    The working class (or labouring class) comprises those engaged in manual-labour occupations or industrial work, who are remunerated via waged or salaried contracts. Working-class occupations (see also "Designation of workers by collar colour") include blue-collar jobs, and most pink-collar jobs. Members of the working class rely exclusively upon earnings from wage labour; thus, according to more inclusive definitions, the category can include almost all of the working population of industrialized economies, as well as those employed in the urban areas (cities, towns, villages) of non-industrialized economies or in the rural workforce.

ChatGPT

  1. worker

    A worker is an individual engaged in a specific activity or job, typically in exchange for wages or salary. This can involve manual labor, skilled labor, or professional tasks in any given field, industry, or service. Workers may be employed by a company, individual, or they may work independently as freelancers or entrepreneurs. They contribute their skills and labor to the productive process, helping to generate goods or services.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Workernoun

    one who, or that which, works; a laborer; a performer; as, a worker in brass

  2. Workernoun

    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

Editors Contribution

  1. worker

    A person who works.

    The workers were so efficient and demonstrated such beautiful unity and teamwork to ensure shared prosperity for everyone.


    Submitted by MaryC on March 28, 2020  

Surnames Frequency by Census Records

  1. WORKER

    According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Worker is ranked #66371 in terms of the most common surnames in America.

    The Worker surname appeared 298 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Worker.

    71.4% or 213 total occurrences were White.
    17.1% or 51 total occurrences were American Indian or Alaskan Native.
    6.7% or 20 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
    2.6% or 8 total occurrences were Black.

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British National Corpus

  1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'worker' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #2822

  2. Written Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'worker' in Written Corpus Frequency: #3132

  3. Nouns Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'worker' in Nouns Frequency: #206

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of worker in Chaldean Numerology is: 6

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of worker in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9

Examples of worker in a Sentence

  1. Niki DaSilva:

    I couldn’t leave her there alone, so I positioned myself between the co-worker and the attorney general to act as a buffer, after a few moments, Attorney General Hill put his hand on my back. I was taken aback by this gesture as we had never held a conversation before that night. I felt his hand start to slide slowly down my back.

  2. Michelle Pettis:

    A worker there found the opossum up on a shelf next to a cracked open bottle of liquor with nothing in it, assuming the opossum drank it all, he brought her to us, and we looked over her and she definitely was n’t fully acting normal.

  3. Ken Loach:

    It's the perfect situation for the big companies. No risk and the worker has to run himself into the ground without being told to, it's not capitalism failing. It's capitalism working as it always will.

  4. Mina Aziz mother:

    He was a worker, he used to carry sand and rocks, what else could he do? he didn't have a trade. He would have taken any job offered to him.

  5. Chuck Schumer:

    President Trump is missing an opportunity to nominate a fighter for workers, like a union member, to be Americas next Labor Department Secretary, instead, President Trump has again chosen someone who has proven to put corporate interests over those of worker rights. Workers and union members who believed President Trump when President Trump campaigned as pro-worker should feel betrayed. In 2005, Walmart hired Antonin Scalia to defend against whistleblower lawsuitsby employees who alleged wrongdoing in the company. Antonin Scalia also helped overturn a Maryland law in 2006 that would have required big companies such as Walmart to spend more on employee health care in the state. That law ran afoul of a federal statute aimed at reducing red tape for certain national employers, who otherwise would have had to afford significantly differentbenefits to employees depending on their state of employment. The Wall Street Journal wrote in 2012 that Antonin Scalia.

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