worker (noun)

  • 1worker — noun ADJECTIVE ▪ good, hard, willing ▪ productive ▪ fast, quick ▪ methodical, steady …

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  • 2worker — ► NOUN 1) a person who works. 2) a person who achieves a specified thing: a miracle worker. 3) a neuter or undeveloped female bee, wasp, ant, etc., large numbers of which perform the basic work of a colony …

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  • 3worker — work‧er [ˈwɜːkə ǁ ˈwɜːrkər] noun [countable] HUMAN RESOURCES one of the people who work for an organization or business, and are below the level of manager: • There are new health and safety regulations for factory workers. • Many office workers… …

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  • 4worker — noun (C) 1 one of the people who work for an organization, business etc and are below the level of a manager: factory/farm/office etc worker: new health and safety regulations for factory workers | skilled/unskilled worker (=someone who has or… …

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  • 5worker participation — noun 1. The involvement of workers in decision making 2. See also ↑participate • • • Main Entry: ↑work * * * worker participation UK US noun [uncountable] business the idea of involvi …

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  • 6worker's compensation — worker s ,compensation or worker s comp noun count usually singular in the U.S., money that a company must pay to a worker who becomes sick or injured because of their job …

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  • 7worker — noun 1) a strike by 500 workers Syn: employee, member of staff; workman, laborer, hand, operative, operator; proletarian; artisan, craftsman, craftswoman; wage earner, breadwinner 2) informal I have a reputation for being a worker …

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  • 8worker director — noun A worker appointed to the board of a firm so as to represent its employees in policy making discussions • • • Main Entry: ↑work …

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  • 9worker — noun Date: 14th century 1. a. one that works especially at manual or industrial labor or with a particular material < a factory worker > often used in combination b. a member of the working class 2. any of the sexually underdeveloped and usually&#8230; …

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  • 10worker-priest — noun Date: 1949 a French Roman Catholic priest who for missionary purposes spends part of each weekday as a worker in a secular job …

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