worker

CEFRA1

/ˈwɜː.kə/

noun

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In plain English

  1. 01

    noun

    A person who does a job, especially for pay.

  2. 02

    noun

    Extra detail

    A nonreproductive social insect, such as ant, bee, termite, or wasp.

Examples

  • Every worker in the factory is required to wear a hard hat.

  • Wages vary in relation to the age of the worker.

At a glance

Sits at A1 on the CEFR scale

Senses
5
Parts of speech
1
Citations
5
Synonyms
2

Deep Dive

noun

Extra meanings

  1. One who works: a person who performs labor for a living; traditionally, especially, manual labor.

  2. A thread performing one instance of a particular task within a program.

  3. A female ant, bee, termite or wasp.

More examples

In context

  • You're really a hard worker.

  • This FTP client spawns a separate worker for each file to be uploaded.

  • Near-synonym: employee

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Quick test

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The factory manager expects each blank on the assembly line to report on time.

Practise this properly in the app, where the word comes back before you forget it.

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Origin

noun

From Middle English werkere, worcher, wercher, equivalent to work + -er. Displaced the older term wright, from Old English wyrhta.