| 1. | a person or thing that works. |
| 2. | a laborer or employee: steel workers. |
| 3. | a person engaged in a particular field, activity, or cause: a worker in psychological research; a worker for the Republican party. |
| 4. | Entomology.
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| 5. | Printing. one of a set of electrotyped plates used to print from (contrasted with molder ). |
| 6. | any of several rollers covered with card clothing that work in combination with the stripper rollers and the cylinder in the carding of fibers. |
| nonworker | |
noun | |
| a person who does nothing [ant: worker] |