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worker

Definition

  • noun: a person who does a particular job to earn money
  • noun: one that 'works' especially at manual or industrial labor or with a particular material
  • often used in combination
  • synonyms: actor, agent, ant

Examples

  • If management doesn't make the changes, the 'workers' will go on strike.

  • The average 'worker' earned $1,000 more this year.

  • The company is planning to hire 200 'workers'.

Movie quotes

  • (..) BETWEEN HEAD AND HANDS MUST BE THE HEART! Shift change. Deep below the earth's surface lay the worker's city. As deep as lay the workers' city below the earth, so high above it towered (..)
    1927 Metropolis