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Meaning of "office worker" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF OFFICE WORKER

office worker  [ˈɒfɪs ˈwɜːkə] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF OFFICE WORKER

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Office worker is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES OFFICE WORKER MEAN IN ENGLISH?

office worker

White-collar worker

In many countries, a white-collar worker is a person who performs professional, managerial, or administrative work. Typically, white-collar work is performed in an office or cubicle. Other types of work are those of a blue-collar worker, whose job requires manual labor and a pink-collar worker, whose labor is related to customer interaction, entertainment, sales, or other service oriented work. Many occupations blend blue, white and/or pink industry categorizations. Receptionists in Stockholm...

Definition of office worker in the English dictionary

The definition of office worker in the dictionary is an employee who works in an office, for example carrying out clerical or administrative work for an organization.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH OFFICE WORKER


berserker
bəˈzɜːkə
burka
ˈbɜːkə
burqa
ˈbɜːkə
care-worker
ˈkɛəwɜːkə
circa
ˈsɜːkə
dock-worker
ˈdɒkˌwɜːkə
jerker
ˈdʒɜːkə
lurker
ˈlɜːkə
mazurka
məˈzɜːkə
metalworker
ˈmɛtlwɜːkə
networker
ˈnɛtˌwɜːkə
steelworker
ˈstiːlwɜːkə
tear-jerker
ˈtɪəˌdʒɜːkə
woodworker
ˈwʊdˌwɜːkə
worker
ˈwɜːkə

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE OFFICE WORKER

office automation
office bearer
office block
office boy
office hours
office job
office junior
office manager
Office of Fair Trading
Office of Management and Budget
office party
office politics
office space
office work
officeholder
officer
officer of arms
officer of the day
officer of the guard
officer of the watch

WORDS THAT END LIKE OFFICE WORKER

aid worker
childcare worker
co-worker
community worker
construction worker
corker
factory worker
field worker
forker
health care worker
knowledge worker
manual worker
medical social worker
miracle worker
New Yorker
outreach worker
Parker
sex worker
social worker
white-collar worker
yorker

Synonyms and antonyms of office worker in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «office worker» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF OFFICE WORKER

Find out the translation of office worker to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of office worker from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «office worker» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

上班族
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

empleado de oficina
570 millions of speakers

English

office worker
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

कार्यालय कार्यकर्ता
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

عامل مكتب
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

офисный работник
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

trabalhador de escritório
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

অফিস কর্মী
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

travailleur social
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

pekerja pejabat
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Angestellte
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

事務員
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

회사원
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

buruh kantor
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

nhân viên văn phòng
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

அலுவலக ஊழியர்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

कार्यालय कार्यकर्ता
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Ofis çalışanı
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

impiegato
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

pracownik biurowy
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

офісний працівник
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

lucrător de birou
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

υπάλληλος γραφείου
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

kantoor werker
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

kontorist
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

kontorarbeider
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of office worker

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «OFFICE WORKER»

The term «office worker» is regularly used and occupies the 78.263 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «OFFICE WORKER» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about office worker

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «OFFICE WORKER»

Discover the use of office worker in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to office worker and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
I'm an Office Worker
Microsoft. Paint. I'm. an. office. worker. thw I can only laugh as hard as I am now because everyone else has gone home. spl I'm an office worker, but I wasn't the last few times this thread came around. I thought everything here was ...
Michael Häne, Dieter Glauser
2
Encyclopedia of U.S. Labor and Working-class History
As Sinclair Lewis told the story of the life of a female office worker in The Job: An American Novel (1917), he pondered the dilemmas of the modern, twentieth- century woman. The very earliest films, shorts shown in nickelodeons, featured ...
Eric Arnesen, 2007
3
Readings in Object-oriented Database Systems
The office worker may indicate that this document can instantiate the task by setting the instantiate attribute to 'yes . Next, the office worker specifies the field value restrictions, if there are any, in a query-by-example fashion [22]. Relationships ...
Stanley Benjamin Zdonik, David Maier, 1990
4
The Sociology of the Blue-collar Worker
"Independent farmer" "Office worker" "Skilled factory worker" Others 20.6% 18.3 55.6 5.5 Total 100.0% (306) (N) Again, personal and social characteristics do not significantly influence the choice of the "skilled factory worker." Only skill level ...
Norman Francis Dufty
5
Out of Office: How to Work from Home, Telecommute, or ...
One of the biggest stressors before the in-office worker even arrives at the office is the commute. Whether via public transport or personal vehicle, dealing with commuting increases most workers stress levels at some point in their working ...
Simon Salt, 2014
6
The Problem of Forming Social Capital: Why Trust?
(value 3); professional worker lawyer, accountant, teacher, middle-level non- manual office worker, junior non-manual office worker, skilled manual worker, foreman and supervisor: new middle class (value 2); semi-skilled manual worker;  ...
Francisco Herreros, 2004
7
The Worker at Work: A Textbook Concerned With Men And Women ...
The Steelcase studies in particular (Harris Associates, 1980) have shown that the economically oriented complaints of the office worker are real, associated with reduced productivity, and not primarily related to rate of pay, other studies have ...
T. M. Fraser, 1989
8
Ontologies-Based Databases and Information Systems: First ...
Creation of a temporary intra-base synonymy link The query is "select * from office worker where project.name='acsis'". The office worker DDO does not exist in the WA's ontology. Relatively to the reference link between project (existing ...
Martine Collard, 2007
9
THE RACE BETWEEN EDUCATION AND TECHNOLOGY
The office worker of the early twentieth century, however, was afforded a narrower purview of the firm's entire operations. Even though the division of labor in the office reduced the skill required in each of several occupations, the work of the ...
Claudia Dale Goldin, Lawrence F. Katz, 2008
10
Women Workers: An Annotated Bibliography, 1983-94
... /hours of work/, /woman worker/, /office worker/, /part time worker/, /role of ILO/, / reference/, /statistical table/ Interests all persons employed in wholesale and retail trade, finance, insurance, real estate and business services, office-workers in ...
‎1995

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «OFFICE WORKER»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term office worker is used in the context of the following news items.
1
A Burly Builder Shows Off His Pole Dancing Moves in Latest …
Mother London's previous outing for Moneysupermarket.com, "Epic Strut," went seriously viral after featuring an office worker twerking in ... «Creativity, Jul 15»
2
Grand Theft Moldova
Marios Papantoniou was unavailable, so OCCRP left the document with a Russian-speaking office worker. Marios Papantoniou promptly ... «OCCRP, Jul 15»
3
More Working Koreans Do Nothing for Summer Holidays
One 26-year-old office worker has booked a hotel room in Seoul. He plans to take his laptop loaded with around a dozen moves and watch ... «The Chosun Ilbo, Jul 15»
4
Being run over by a lorry did not stop Jim reaching his ton
... at his family home in Thames Street, Abingdon, in 1915, Mr Simpson attended Bury Street School before joining MG as an office worker at 15. «Oxford Mail, Jul 15»
5
Police in Oklahoma question two teen brothers in stabbing deaths of …
View Slideshow Request to buy this photo Sue Ogrocki | Associated Press A medical examiner's office worker, right, looks at a body behind the ... «Columbus Dispatch, Jul 15»
6
Post office worker gets probation for stealing vets' medicine
A former post office custodian received three years' probation Wednesday for stealing boxes of pain medication destined for veterans. «The Virginian-Pilot, Jul 15»
7
Wearing a sweater in the office in July
A 2009 survey from the International Facility Management Association (IFMA) showed the most common office worker complaint is that the ... «Boston.com, Jul 15»
8
Passersby lift lorry off trapped man in Singapore
Footage captured by an office worker in Singapore shows a group of around 30 rush to one side of the vehicle and push. Suan Wang Foo ... «Metro, Jul 15»
9
Are You Smoking In The Office?
The average office worker sits for 10 hours per day between work and home life. Prolonged sitting for 6 hours or more per day has been likened ... «Pulse, Jul 15»
10
The Body Mechanic: is your road handlebar right for you?
... when paired with conservative 'endurance' bike geometry, allows even the most dedicated office worker to be comfortable on weekend rides ... «BikeRadar.com, Jul 15»

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