hard worker
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1.3
- noun
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trabajador
- She is known as a hard worker who always stays late to finish her projects.
I know that I consider myself to be a hard worker at times.
- I know that I consider myself to be a hard worker at times.
- So you've been one of the hardest workers ever on the mat.
- I feel like for me, it'll just be a genuine hard worker with integrity.
- But I think they also, they, they are such hard workers and loyal people at heart.
- I wasn't particularly a hard worker at school.
- And my my dad was an extremely hard worker.
- I think, you know, we're a nation of hard workers.
- I think I think Jay Paul's one of the hardest workers.
- And I'll, I'll mention this too as well, that my dad was a very hard worker.
- OK, well why don't you ask God for wisdom to learn how to create things and then be a hard worker and be diligent and stay focused.
- So there's a difference between you meet a man who is ambitious, is a hard worker, but he hasn't gotten to that place yet.
Examples
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Paul is a very hard worker, and you should be very proud of him.
Fiction book (1990) -
He's obviously a hard worker and a busy man.
Fiction book (1998) -
Kids over in D.R. are raised to be hard workers, she says.
Fiction book (2002) -
I know that I consider myself to be a hard worker at times.
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You know, I gave you this job because your brother was always a hard worker.
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Having no father made me responsible and a hard worker at a young age.
Blog text (26) -
I'm one of the the hard workers in this town.
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His father is a hard worker and manages the computer program division of a large company.
Academic text (2005) -
Their English may not have been communicable, but they were hard workers.
Academic text (1994) -
I'm looking forward to hearing back from someone; I'm a hard worker and a people person.
Blog text (20)
Synonyms
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3.5
A person or machine that does a lot of steady hard work
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5.5
A person who works very hard to reach a goal or improve their life
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7.8
A person who works very hard, often doing heavy or boring tasks
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5.8
A person who works very hard at their job
A person who works very hard at physical jobs
A person who works best under pressure to meet tight deadlines
Antonyms
How Industrious
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a person who works with great effort' is directly and transparently derived from combining 'hard' (with great effort) and 'worker' (a person who works); the adjective‑noun composition clearly denotes someone who 'works hard'. This is a common, compositional pattern in English and across languages, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents should readily infer the MWE meaning.
Etymology
Hard worker comes from a simple picture: a person doing hard, tiring jobs like a farmer or builder, so they are a worker who keeps going even when the work is tough. That's why calling someone a hard worker today means they 'work with great effort' and do not give up.