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- [wur-ker]
- /ˈwɜr kər/
- /ˈwɜːkə(r)/
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- US Pronunciation
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- [wur-ker]
- /ˈwɜr kər/
Definitions of worker word
- noun worker a person or thing that works. 1
- noun worker a laborer or employee: steel workers. 1
- noun worker a person engaged in a particular field, activity, or cause: a worker in psychological research; a worker for the Republican Party. 1
- noun worker Entomology. a member of a caste of sexually underdeveloped, nonreproductive bees, specialized to collect food and maintain the hive. a similar member of a specialized caste of ants, termites, or wasps. 1
- noun worker Printing. one of a set of electrotyped plates used to print from (contrasted with molder2. ). 1
- noun worker any of several rollers covered with card clothing that work in combination with the stripper rollers and the cylinder in the carding of fibers. 1
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Origin of worker
First appearance:
before 1300 One of the 15% oldest English words
First recorded in 1300-50, worker is from the Middle English word werker, worcher. See work, -er1
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Parts of speech for Worker
noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
worker popularity
A common word. It’s meaning is known to most children of preschool age. About 98% of English native speakers know the meaning and use the word.
Most Europeans know this English word. The frequency of it’s usage is somewhere between "mom" and "screwdriver".
Synonyms for worker
noun worker
- employee — A person employed for wages or salary, especially at nonexecutive level.
- hand — Learned [lur-nid] /ˈlɜr nɪd/ (Show IPA), 1872–1961, U.S. jurist.
- operative — a person engaged, employed, or skilled in some branch of work, especially productive or industrial work; worker.
- wage earner — a person who works for wages, especially a laborer.
- labourer — Standard spelling of laborer.
Antonyms for worker
noun worker
- check — Check is also a noun.
- hindrance — an impeding, stopping, preventing, or the like.
- obstruction — something that obstructs, blocks, or closes up with an obstacle or obstacles; obstacle or hindrance: obstructions to navigation.
- unemployed — not employed; without a job; out of work: an unemployed secretary.
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