worker
- noun
- /ˈwɜrkər/
- After years of service, each worker deserves recognition for their hard work and dedication.
- a social worker
- health workers
- a care worker
Well, how many vacation days does the average worker get per year?
- Well, how many vacation days does the average worker get per year?
- are highly skilled, highly educated workers. That's
- You've made that worker look for another job.
- Put simply, will machines leave workers behind or not?
- Most of them were textile workers working for fast fashion brands.
- The foreground is that you hire a worker for their cost of production.
- A swarm of hard hatted day workers coated in white dust.
- So but it's fantastic people, great workers, very interesting.
- The work of art must be separated from the worker who created it.
- So the amount of workers go down at first, right?
- I mean, as some people leave, younger workers may come in through hard.
Examples
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Well, how many vacation days does the average worker get per year?
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Most of them were textile workers working for fast fashion brands.
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We can create places of work where workers can be happy and be well.
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According to the LA Times, film and TV workers are leaving, too.
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You might have a dedicated student worker who is thinking about library school.
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I could always use a good worker.
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In other words, the average American worker generates $13 more per hour than the average Canadian worker.
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An assembly line moves a product forward while workers and machines add subassemblies to the product.
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Others include employing health workers in neighborhoods to help residents and collaborative research partnerships.
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He was a steel worker and he was a locksmith.
Synonyms
A person hired by a company or another person to do paid work
A person who does hard physical work without special skills, often on building sites
A person who does manual or factory work for pay, not a manager
A person paid to do manual work on a farm or ranch
A person who does hard work using their hands
A person who has regular paid work for an organization
A person who does physical work with their hands
Antonyms
Compounds
A person who builds and fixes buildings, roads and other large structures at work sites
A person who works in a factory doing physical work on machines and assembly lines
A person people believe causes amazing events like healings that others cannot explain
A person who works only at certain times of the year, for example during harvest or holiday seasons
A person who helps hospital patients with emotional, family, and practical needs
- Specialized
A person who runs or fixes machines at a power station that makes electricity
A person who has a disability and works or looks for work, bringing different skills
How Skilled
- Specialized
- US
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Worker comes from the simple word work plus the ending -er, which means 'one who does'. So a worker is literally 'one who does work', often someone employed to do tasks or physical jobs.