worker
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kər noun
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.
a.
a member of a caste of sexually underdeveloped, nonreproductive bees, specialized to collect food and maintain the hive. See illus. under bee.
b.
a similar member of a specialized caste of ants, termites, or wasps.
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Worker
is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
| a children's mummer's parade, as on the Fourth of July, with prizes for the best costumes. |
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worker (ˈwɜːkə) ![[Click for IPA pronunciation guide]](http://static.sfdict.com/dictstatic/g/d/dictionary_questionbutton_default.gif) | |
| —n | |
| 1. | a person or thing that works, usually at a specific job: a good worker; a research worker |
| 2. | an employee in an organization, as opposed to an employer or manager |
| 3. | a manual labourer or other employee working in a manufacturing or other industry |
| 4. | any other member of the working class |
| 5. | a sterile female member of a colony of bees, ants, or wasps that forages for food, cares for the larvae, etc |
| 'workerless | |
| —adj | |
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Example sentences
Suddenly, a paint-splattered worker picking at a nearby wall shouts, waves his steel trowel and points.
The cost would have been much higher because of regulations on worker safety.
Normally worker protests dissipate rapidly, with unions usually taking the side of managers.
That's not much less than what the average worker spends to commute to the job.
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