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work⋅er

[wur-ker]

–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.

Entomology.

a.	a member of a caste of sexually underdeveloped, nonreproductive bees, specialized to collect food and maintain the hive.

b.	a similar member of a specialized caste of ants, termites, or wasps.

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.

Origin:
1300–50; ME werker, worcher. See work, -er ¹

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work·er (wûr'kər)

1. One who works at a particular occupation or activity: an office worker.
2. One who does manual or industrial labor.
A member of the working class.
A member of a colony of social insects such as ants, bees, wasps, or termites, usually a sterile female but often a sexually immature individual of either sex, that performs specialized work such as building the nest, collecting and storing food, and feeding other members of the colony.

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