All jobholder synonyms
job·hold·er
J j noun jobholder
- employee — A person employed for wages or salary, especially at nonexecutive level.
- agent — A chemical that has a particular effect or is used for a particular purpose can be referred to as a particular kind of agent.
- apprentice — An apprentice is a young person who works for someone in order to learn their skill.
- assistant — Assistant is used in front of titles or jobs to indicate a slightly lower rank. For example, an assistant director is one rank lower than a director in an organization.
- attendant — An attendant is someone whose job is to serve or help people in a place such as a petrol station, a car park, or a cloakroom.
- breadwinner — The breadwinner in a family is the person in it who earns the money that the family needs for essential things.
- clerk — A clerk is a person who works in an office, bank, or law court and whose job is to look after the records or accounts.
- cog — A cog is a wheel with square or triangular teeth around the edge, which is used in a machine to turn another wheel or part.
- domestic — of or relating to the home, the household, household affairs, or the family: domestic pleasures.
- hand — Learned [lur-nid] /ˈlɜr nɪd/ (Show IPA), 1872–1961, U.S. jurist.
- help — to give or provide what is necessary to accomplish a task or satisfy a need; contribute strength or means to; render assistance to; cooperate effectively with; aid; assist: He planned to help me with my work. Let me help you with those packages.
- hireling — a person who works only for pay, especially in a menial or boring job, with little or no concern for the value of the work.
- labourer — Standard spelling of laborer.
- laborer — a person engaged in work that requires bodily strength rather than skill or training: a laborer in the field.
- member — a person, animal, plant, group, etc., that is part of a society, party, community, taxon, or other body.
- operator — a person who operates a machine, apparatus, or the like: a telegraph operator.
- plug — an apparatus for splitting stone, consisting of two tapered bars (feathers) inserted into a hole drilled into the stone, between which a narrow wedge (plug) is hammered to spread them.
- representative — a person or thing that represents another or others.
- salesperson — a person who sells goods, services, etc.
- servant — a person employed by another, especially to perform domestic duties.
- slave — a person who is the property of and wholly subject to another; a bond servant.
- worker — a person or thing that works.
- blue collar — of or relating to wage-earning workers who wear work clothes or other specialized clothing on the job, as mechanics, longshoremen, and miners. Compare white-collar.
- craftsperson — an artisan
- desk jockey — an office worker who sits at a desk, often as contrasted with someone who does more important or active work: desk jockeys at the CIA.
- hired gun — a person hired to kill someone, as a gunfighter or professional killer.
- hired hand — a hired laborer, especially on a farm or ranch; farm hand or ranch hand.
- pink collar — of or relating to a type of employment traditionally held by women, especially relatively low-paying work: secretaries, phone operators, and other pink-collar workers.
- working stiff — A working stiff is a person who has an ordinary job that is not well-paid.