worker meaning

• Noun: worker  wurku(r)
  1. A person who works at a specific occupation
     "he is a good worker" 
  2. A member of the working class (not necessarily employed)
     "workers of the world--unite!"
     - proletarian, prole 
  3. Sterile member of a colony of social insects that forages for food and cares for the larvae 
  4. A person who acts and gets things done
     "he's a miracle worker"
     - actor, doer

  Derived forms: workers

  See also: work

  Type of: common man, common person, commoner, individual, insect, mortal, person, somebody, someone, soul

  Antonym: nonworker

  Part of: labor [US], labour [Brit, Cdn], proletariat, proletariate [archaic], working class

  Encyclopedia: Worker

• 
  [Business]
  AmE / noun [C]

  ASSEMBLY WORKER, CO-WORKER, CONTRACT WORKER, GUEST WORKER, INSIDE WORKER, KNOWLEDGE WORKER, MOBILE WORKER, NOMADIC WORKER, OUTSIDE WORKER

  1 (often used in compounds)

  a person who works, especially one who does a particular kind of work:

  The research showed that 40% of clerical workers suffer headaches and tiredness at work.

  The plant has 1 400 workers.

  Some employment practices that treat younger and older workers differently may not be unfair. See note at CHAIRMAN

  ❖ assembly-line/factory/farm/manufacturing/production workers

  ◆ full-time/part-time/temp/temporary workers

  ◆ agency/casual/freelance/self-employed workers

  ◆ blue-collar/manual/white-collar workers

  ◆ private-sector/public-sector workers

  ◆ semi-skilled/skilled/unskilled workers

  2

  a person who is employed to do physical work rather than organizing things or managing people:

  talks between workers and management

  profit-sharing and worker participation in decision-making

  Conflict between employers and workers intensified and the number of strikes rose.

  3 (usually after an adjective)

  a person who works hard or who works in a particular way

  a good/hard/productive/quick/steady worker

• 
  [Law]
  n. An employee.

• agricultural worker:    [Medicine]The scie ...
• assembly worker:    [Business]noun [C] ...
• care worker:    n. [c] (Br.)a prof ...

Examples

1. with one voice, the workers voted to strike.
2. the workers had to live on their savings.
3. the workers were assembled in the hall.
4. my father means me to be a worker.
5. he substituted for the worker who was ill.