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Etymology

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FromMiddle Englishwerkere,worcher,wercher, equivalent towork +‎-er. Displaced the older termwright, fromOld Englishwyrhta.

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worker (pluralworkers)

  1. One whoworks: aperson whoperformslabor for aliving; traditionally, especially,manual labor.
    Hyponyms:laborer,labourer;blue-collar worker,white-collar worker;drone,drudge
    Coordinate terms:boss,manager,employer(sometimescoinstantial)
    Near-synonym:employee
    • 1611,The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […],→OCLC,Psalms37:1:
      Fret not thy ſelfe becauſe of euill doers, neither bee thou enuious againſt theworkers of iniquitie.
    • 1986,Janice G. Raymond,A Passion for Friends: Toward a Philosophy of Female Affection‎[1],Boston:Beacon Press,→ISBN,→LCCN,→OCLC,page124:
      Writer Ta Chen, in a statistical study of industrial labor in China in 1933, recorded that 66.6 percent of the total number ofworkers in the four main industrial regions of Kwangtung were women. In Shun-te, 81.2 percent of the labor force were women.
    • 2014 April 21, “Subtle effects”, inThe Economist‎[2], volume411, number8884:
      Manganism has been known about since the 19th century, when miners exposed to ores containing manganese[…] began to totter, slur their speech and behave like someone inebriated. The poisoning was irreversible, and soon ended in psychosis and death. Nowadaysworkers are exposed to far lower doses and manganism is rare.
    • 2017 February 2, Jeff Farrell, “Fukushima nuclear disaster: Lethal levels of radiation detected in leak seven years after plant meltdown in Japan”, inThe Independent‎[3], London:
      Although the radiation levels identified are high, a threat to human health is very unlikely because apart fromworkers at the site, no-one goes there.
    • 2018 March 24, Lydia DePillis, “Few noticed, but Congress just banned restaurants from skimming tips”, inCNN‎[4]:
      That would allow employers to keep some tip money for themselves, as long as eachworker made at least the full federal minimum wage of $7.25 an hour.
  2. Anonreproductivesocial insect, such asant,bee,termite, orwasp.
    1. (rare) Afemale ant, bee, termite or wasp.
  3. (computing) Athread performing oneinstance of a particulartask within aprogram.
    This FTP client spawns a separateworker for each file to be uploaded.

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person who performs labor
insect

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