worker
/ˈwɜː.kə//ˈwɝ.kɚ/
worker noun: one who works: a person who performs labor for a living; traditionally, especially, manual labor.
Noun
worker (plural workers)
- One who works: a person who performs labor for a living; traditionally, especially, manual labor.
- Near-synonym: employee
- Fret not thy ſelfe becauſe of euill doers, neither bee thou enuious againſt the workers of iniquitie.1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Psalms 37:1
- Synonyms:
- employee
- A nonreproductive social insect, such as ant, bee, termite, or wasp.
- A thread performing one instance of a particular task within a program.
- This FTP client spawns a separate worker for each file to be uploaded.
worker meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
worker in Hindi
- person who performs labor
- मज़दूर mazdūr, श्रमिक śramik, कामगार kāmgār
worker in Tamil
- பணியாளர், பணியாளி, ஊழியர், வேலைக்காரர், வேலைக்காரன், வேலைக்காரி
worker in Marathi
- worker, labourer
- कामगार kāmgār
worker in Urdu
- person who performs labor
- مَزدُور mazdūr, کامْگار kāmgār
More languagesFewer languages
- worker in Bengali
- কর্মী kormi
- worker in Malayalam
- തൊഴിലാളി toḻilāḷi, പ്രവർത്തകൻ pravaṟttakaṉ
- worker in Kannada
- ಕೂಲಿಗಾರ, ಕೆಲಸಗಾರ, ಕೆಲಸಿ, ಕೆಲ್ಲಸಿ
- worker in Sinhala
- කම්කරුවා kamkaruwā, වැඩකාරයා wæḍakārayā
- worker in Pashto
- کارګر kārgar, کاريګر kārigar
- worker in Tagalog
- manggagawa, trabahador
- worker in Arabic
- عَامِل ʕāmil, عَامِلَة ʕāmila, شَغِّيل šaḡḡīl, شَغِّيلَة šaḡḡīla
- worker in Malay
- pekerja
- worker in Indonesian
- pekerja, buruh
- worker in Thai
- คนงาน kon-ngaan, กรรมกร gam-má-gɔɔn, พนักงาน pá-nák-ngaan, ลูกจ้าง lûuk-jâang
- worker in Vietnamese
- thợ, công nhân
- worker in Myanmar
- အလုပ်သမား a.lupsa.ma:, လုပ်သား lupsa:
Examples of worker 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...
- Nowadays workers are exposed to far lower doses and manganism is rare.2014 April 21, “Subtle effects”, in The Economist, volume 411, number 8884:
- Although the radiation levels identified are high, a threat to human health is very unlikely because apart from workers at the site, no-one goes there.2017 February 2, Jeff Farrell, “Fukushima nuclear disaster: Lethal levels of radiation detected in leak seven years after plant meltdown in...
- That would allow employers to keep some tip money for themselves, as long as each worker made at least the full federal minimum wage of $7.25 an hour.2018 March 24, Lydia DePillis, “Few noticed, but Congress just banned restaurants from skimming tips”, in CNN, archived from the original...
Synonyms of worker
Antonyms
Forms of worker
| plural | workers |
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Origin of worker
Inherited from Middle English worchere, werkere, equivalent to work + -er. Displaced the older term wright, from Old English wyrhta.
Words formed from worker
- aid worker
- anti-worker
- antiworker
- artworker
- autoworker
- barworker
- beadworker
- bodyworker
- brain worker
- brassworker
- bronzeworker
- building worker
- cabinetworker
- camera worker
- camera-worker
- careworker
- caseworker
- clothworker
- coalworker
- construction worker
- copperworker
- counterworker
- co-worker
- coworker
- craftworker
- crowdworker
- dayworker
- day worker
- day-worker
- decoration worker
- deskworker
- dock worker
- dockworker
- domestic worker
- dreamworker
- enamelworker
- essential worker
- evilworker
- exworker
- faceworker
- factoryworker
- farm worker
- farmworker
- featherworker
- fieldworker
- fireworker
- fishworker
- flameworker
- flintworker
- freezing worker
- garmentworker
- gasworker
- gig worker
- glassworker
- goldworker
- groundworker
- guest worker
- hairworker
- handworker
- hard worker
Phrases with worker
- key worker
- sex worker
- war worker
- worker bee
- care worker
- face worker
- link worker
- lush worker
- poll worker
- vibe worker
- worker bees
- peace worker
33 more phrasesFewer phrases
- piece worker
- shift worker
- shock worker
- steel worker
- track worker
- trade worker
- youth worker
- health worker
- hybrid worker
- office worker
- postal worker
- relief worker
- remote worker
- social worker
- street worker
- trades worker
- migrant worker
- miracle worker
- process worker
- service worker
- seasonal worker
- itinerant worker
- knowledge worker
- portfolio worker
- threshold worker
- replicated worker
- sanitation worker
- blue-collar worker
- healthy worker bias
- undocumented worker
- white-collar worker
- second-storey worker
- healthy worker biases
Words that rhyme with worker
Questions about worker
- What does worker mean?
- Worker means one who works: a person who performs labor for a living; traditionally, especially, manual labor.
- What is worker in Hindi?
- Worker in Hindi is मज़दूर (mazdūr), श्रमिक (śramik), कामगार (kāmgār). See Worker meaning in Hindi.
- How do you use worker 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.
- What part of speech is worker?
- Worker is a noun.
- How do you pronounce worker?
- Worker is pronounced /ˈwɜː.kə/ (UK).
- What is the plural of worker?
- The plural of worker is workers.
Words near worker in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: worker (page history and authors); worker (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); कामगार (Marathi) (page history and authors); തൊഴിലാളി (Malayalam) (page history and authors); worker (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). 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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