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worker Definition

worker (wʉr′kər)

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

worker Synonyms

worker

n.

operator, mechanic, machinist, craftsman, artist, artisan, journeyman, master worker, handworker, skilled workman, white-collar worker, field workman; see also operator 1.

Skilled workers include: carpenter, cabinetmaker, upholsterer, paperhanger, plasterer, bricklayer, plumber, electrician, pipefitter, coppersmith, sheet-metal worker, auto sheet-metal worker, printer, pressman, linotype operator, ship fitter, platehanger, slinger, chipper, screw machine operator, glassworker, lapping machine operator, truck driver, heavy equipment operator, automobile mechanic, punch press operator, sewing machine operator, cost accountant, clerk, file clerk, stenographer, word processor, data processing technician, data entry operator, secretary, bookkeeper, salesman, packager, darkroom operator, photographer, proofreader, railroad freight clerk, division clerk, conductor, brakeman, signalman, locomotive engineer, fireman, barber, baker, chef, butcher, farm worker, cowboy, dairyman, waiter, waitress, beautician, hairdresser, cosmetologist, day care worker, laundry worker, welder, drill press operator, hydraulic press operator, automatic screw operator, jig borer operator, drill operator, die sink operator, mason, lathe operator, gear-cutting machine operator, threading machine operator, telegrapher, teletype operator, telephone operator, radio operator, radio repairer, radio assembler, radio wirer, cigar maker, pattern builder, textile worker, tool designer, postal clerk, painter, pan coating man, galvanizer, draftsman, furrier, jewelry repairman, gold stamper, jigsaw cutter.

worker Usage Examples

Possessives

  • comp: Regulations sections a unlawful rebates and workers ' comp in an expensive.
  • militia: Eg, national self-determination, women's equality, workers ' militia, land redistribution.
  • co-operative: They include direct employe ownership, workers ' co-operatives and simple profit-sharing schemes.

Converse of object

  • employ: People who engage the services of contract workers employed by someone else.
  • protect: Failure to protect these workers is a grave breach of the rights of workers set out in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
  • recruit: Experienced staff are leaving and it is difficult to recruit skilled workers.

Adjective modifier

  • migrant: Can I offer a permanent contract to a migrant worker?
  • social: To get direct payments, you need to have a social worker, who will assess you for the support you need.
  • skilled: Poland, for example, has an unemployment rate of 20 percent, despite its wealth of skilled workers.
  • part-time: The law changed a few years ago and now part-time workers enjoy exactly the same rights.
  • postal: The SSP candidate is Nick Tarlton, a 25-year-old postal worker.
  • temporary: They are just temporary workers with very short term contracts.

Modifies a noun

  • bee: Worker bees collect nectar and pollen for the queen and new larvae to eat, and keep the burrow tidy.
  • ant: Queen with worker ants Army ant queens may lay 2 million eggs in a month.

Noun used with modifier

  • youth: Youth workers in schools should follow the policies of the school in which they are working.
  • factory: Defender's witness No 2 ROBERT L. STEVENSON, Aged 35, part-time factory worker, c/o 5 Glen Lane, Paisley.
  • outreach: We need an outreach worker speaking to nurses and doctors in clinics and getting people used to the idea of coming to a group.
  • healthcare: By 1945, a shadow national system covering most groups of healthcare workers was in existence.
  • farm: The young farm worker was not to be put off.
  • construction: He is a construction worker who chose to take a contract in Iraq.
worker Quotes

   If capital isgrowing rapidly, wages may rise; the profit of capital rises incomparably more rapidly. The material position of the worker has improved, but at the cost of his social position. The social gulf that divides him from the capitalist has widened.

—Marx, Karl Heinrich

Political economy thus does not recognize the unoccupied worker, the working man so far as he is outside this work relationship. Swindlers, thieves, beggars, the unemployed, the starving, poverty- stricken and criminal working man, are figures which do not exist for political economy, but only for other eyes; fordoctors, judges,grave-diggers,beadles,etc.Theyare ghostly figures outsidethe domain of political economy.

—Marx, Karl Heinrich

A bayonet is a weapon with a worker at each end.

—Anonymous

The worker becomes poorer the more wealth he produces and the more his production increases in powerand extent.The worker becomes anevercheaper commodity the more good he creates. The devaluation of the human world increases in direct relation with the increase in value of the world of things. Labour does not only create goods; it also produces itself and the worker as a commodity, and indeed in the same proportion as it produces goods.

—Marx, Karl Heinrich

The worker is the slave of capitalist society, the female worker is the slave of that slave.

—Connolly,James

In manufacture and in handicrafts, the worker uses a tool; in the factory, he serves a machine.

—Marx, Karl Heinrich

An industrial worker would sooner have a »5 note but a countryman must have praise.

—Blythe, Ronald George