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Plural of worker

regular plural

The plural of worker is workers.

Forms of worker

Singularworker /ˈwɜː.kə/
Pluralworkers /ˈwɝ.kɚz/
Countablecountable

Workers in a sentence

  • Writer Ta Chen, in a statistical study of industrial labor in China in 1933, recorded that 66.6 percent of the total number of workers in the four main industrial regions of Kwangtung were women.1986, Janice G. Raymond, A Passion for Friends: Toward a Philosophy of Female Affection, Boston: Beacon Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 124
  • Nowadays workers are exposed to far lower doses and manganism is rare.2014 April 21, “Subtle effects”, in The Economist, volume 411, number 8884
  • The Communist Party has a policy of returning power to the workers.From the entry policy
  • The exposed workers had some kind of disease that left their skin splotchy and their faces withered.From the entry disease
  • The workers voted on whether to strike, and there were thirty "yeses" and one "no".From the entry yes

Meaning of worker

  1. noun One who works: a person who performs labor for a living; traditionally, especially, manual labor.
  2. noun A nonreproductive social insect, such as ant, bee, termite, or wasp.
  3. noun A female ant, bee, termite or wasp.

Full definition of worker

Questions about the plural of worker

What is the plural of worker?
The plural of worker is workers.
Is worker countable?
Worker is a countable noun.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: worker (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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