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worker
CIDE DICTIONARY
worker, n.
- One who, or that which, works; a laborer; a performer; as, a worker in brass. [1913 Webster]"Professors of holiness, but workers of iniquity." [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
worker, n.
1 a person who works, esp. a manual or industrial employee.
2 a neuter or undeveloped female of various social insects, esp. a bee or ant, that does the basic work of its colony.
1 a person who works, esp. a manual or industrial employee.
2 a neuter or undeveloped female of various social insects, esp. a bee or ant, that does the basic work of its colony.
Idiom
worker priest a French Roman Catholic or an Anglican priest who engages part-time in secular work.
THESAURUS
worker
actor, agent, ant, architect, army ant, artisan, assistant, author, bee, black ant, blue-collar worker, brainworker, brassworker, breadwinner, bumblebee, carpenter ant, casual, casual laborer, clothworker, common laborer, craftsman, creator, day laborer, doer, drone, emmet, employee, executant, executor, executrix, fabricator, factory worker, fieldworker, fire ant, flintworker, flunky, free lance, free-lancer, full-time worker, garmentworker, girl Friday, glassworker, goldworker, hand, handicraftsman, hired hand, hired man, hireling, honeybee, hornet, house ant, industrial worker, ironworker, jobber, jobholder, laborer, laboring man, laceworker, leatherworker, maker, man Friday, mechanic, medium, menial, mercenary, metalworker, migrant, millworker, mineworker, moiler, mover, myrmidon, navvy, needleworker, office temporary, operant, operative, operator, pensioner, performer, perpetrator, pismire, practitioner, prime mover, producer, proletarian, queen, queen bee, red ant, right-hand man, roustabout, salaried worker, self-employed person, servant, slave ant, soldier, stiff, subject, temporary, termite, toiler, wage earner, wage slave, wageworker, wasp, workgirl, workhand, working girl, workingman, workingwoman, workman, yellow jacketROGET THESAURUS
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Agent
N doer, actor, agent, performer, perpetrator, operator, executor, executrix, practitioner, worker, stager, bee, ant, working bee, termite, white ant, laboring oar, servant of all work, factotum, workman, artisan, craftsman, handicraftsman, mechanic, operative, working man, laboring man, demiurgus, hewers of wood and drawers of water, laborer, navvy, hand, man, day laborer, journeyman, charwoman, hack, mere tool, beast of burden, drudge, fag, lumper, roustabout, maker, artificer, artist, wright, manufacturer, architect, builder, mason, bricklayer, smith, forger, Vulcan, carpenter, ganger, platelayer, blacksmith, locksmith, sailmaker, wheelwright, machinist, mechanician, engineer, sempstress, semstress, seamstress, needlewoman, workwoman, tailor, cordwainer, minister, servant, representative, coworker, party to, participator in, particeps criminis, dramatis personae, personnel, quorum pars magna fui, faber est quisque fortunae suae.For further exploring for "worker" in Webster Dictionary Online