picker
/ˈpɪkə(ɹ)/
picker noun: a worker responsible for picking or retrieving ordered items, etc. Also the agent noun of pick.
Noun
picker (plural pickers)
- A worker responsible for picking or retrieving ordered items, etc.
- Already at Amazon warehouses, ‘pickers’—the workers who locate purchased items and transport them to the shipping station within the warehouse—are issued a hand-held device that tracks their every move.2020, Noreena Hertz, chapter 8, in The Lonely Century, Hodder & Stoughton, →ISBN
- "Farmers can't get sufficient fruit pickers," he said. "It is the same pool of labour, agency staff [who are] largely eastern European [and] a huge number of them Polish."2021 August 27, “Fruit picker shortage spreads to Christmas workers”, in BBC News, United States, archived from the original on 05 Sep 2025
- Any user interface control that selects something.
- date picker
- file picker
- A machine for picking fibrous materials to pieces so as to loosen and separate the fibre.
- The piece in a loom that strikes the end of the shuttle and impels it through the warp.
- A priming wire for cleaning the vent, in ordnance.
- A fragment of gold smaller than a nugget but large enough to be picked up.
- One who removes defects from and finishes electrotype plates.
- A pilferer.
Proper noun capitalized: Picker
Picker (plural Pickers)
- A surname.
Also used as
picker is also the agent noun of pick.
picker meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Bengali
picker in Hindi
- पिकर
picker in Tamil
- பிக்கர், பிக் செய்பவர்
picker in Marathi
- पिकर, उचलणारा
picker in Bengali
- পিকার
More languagesFewer languages
- picker in Telugu
- పికర్, పికెర్, పిక్కర్
- picker in Malayalam
- പിക്കർ
- picker in Kannada
- ಪಿಕರ್, ಪಿಕ್ಕರ್
- picker in Punjabi
- ਚੁੰਘਾਉਣ ਵਾਲਾ, ਪਿੱਕਰ, ਚੁੱਕਣ ਵਾਲਾ
- picker in Gujarati
- પીકર, પિકર
- picker in Odia
- ପିକର୍, ପିକର
- picker in Nepali
- पिकर
Examples of picker in a sentence
- The pickers are paid by the fortnight by the American bushel.
- This paper focuses on optimizing the static order batching problem (OBP) with multiple pickers.
- We assume that each picker is assigned one batch and all pickers begin the pick tour simultaneously.
Forms of picker
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | pickers |
| Proper noun | |
| plural | Pickers |
| alternative form | Pickar |
Origin of picker
From Middle English pikere, pykare, equivalent to pick + -er.
Various origins: * From picker, an English occupational surname for someone who used a pick. * Borrowed from German Picker, an occupational surname for someone who used a pickaxe. * Borrowed from Dutch Picker, an occupational surname for a stonemason or for a reaper or mower. * Jewish Ashkenazi nickname for a glutton, from Yiddish פּיקן (pikn, “to peck”).
Words formed from picker
Phrases with picker
Words that rhyme with picker
Questions about picker
- What does picker mean?
- Picker means a worker responsible for picking or retrieving ordered items, etc.
- What is picker in Hindi?
- Picker in Hindi is पिकर. See Picker meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is picker?
- Picker can be a noun or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce picker?
- Picker is pronounced /ˈpɪkə(ɹ)/.
- What is the plural of picker?
- The plural of picker is pickers.
Words near picker in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: picker (page history and authors); Picker (page history and authors); picker (Hindi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); picker (Tamil, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); picker (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); picker (Bengali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); picker (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); picker (Malayalam, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); picker (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); picker (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); picker (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); picker (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); picker (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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