worker

The definition of a worker is a person or animal that performs a specific or necessary task or who completes tasks in a certain way.

(noun)

  1. A person who works in a store is an example of a retail worker.
  2. A person who works diligently on his homework for hours a day is an example of a hard worker.
  3. A bee who is responsible for building the nest is an example of a worker bee.

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See worker in Webster's New World College Dictionary

noun

  1. a person, animal, or thing that works; specif., a person who is employed to do physical or mental work for wages, esp. in order to earn a living, as in a trade, industry, business, office, etc. or on a farm, ranch, etc.
  2. a person who works for a cause, organization, etc.: volunteer workers, a party worker
  3. any of a class of sterile or sexually imperfect ants, bees, wasps, etc. that do work for the colony: with the exception of termites, workers are normally females
  4. Printing an electrotype used to print from, as distinguished from one used as a mold for making duplicate electrotypes

a person who works in a (specified) industry or place or with (specified) materials or equipment: dockworker, steelworker

See worker in American Heritage Dictionary 4

noun
  1. a. One who works at a particular occupation or activity: an office worker.
    b. One who does manual or industrial labor.
  2. A member of the working class.
  3. A member of a colony of social insects such as ants, bees, wasps, or termites, usually a sterile female but often a sexually immature individual of either sex, that performs specialized work such as building the nest, collecting and storing food, and feeding other members of the colony.

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