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Meaning of "worker" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF WORKER

worker  [ˈwɜːkə] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF WORKER

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
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 WORKER MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Workforce

The workforce is the labour pool in employment. It is generally used to describe those working for a single company or industry, but can also apply to a geographic region like a city, state, country, etc. The term generally excludes the employers or management, and can imply those involved in manual labour. It may also mean all those that are available for work. Workers may be unionised, whereby the union conducts negotiations regarding pay and conditions of employment. In the event of industrial unrest, unions provide a co-ordinating role in organising ballots of the workforce, and strike action.

Definition of worker in the English dictionary

The first definition of worker in the dictionary is a person or thing that works, usually at a specific job. Other definition of worker is an employee in an organization, as opposed to an employer or manager. Worker is also a manual labourer or other employee working in a manufacturing or other industry.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH 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

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE WORKER

workaholism
workaround
workbag
workbench
workboat
workbook
workbox
workday
worked
worked up
workend
worker ant
worker bee
worker director
worker participation
worker-priest
worker´s compensation
workerist
workerless
workers´ cooperative

WORDS THAT END LIKE 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
office worker
Parker
sex worker
social worker
white-collar worker
yorker

Synonyms and antonyms of worker in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «WORKER»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «worker» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of worker

Translation of «worker» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF WORKER

Find out the translation of worker to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of 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 «worker» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

工人
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

trabajador
570 millions of speakers

English

worker
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

कार्यकर्ता
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

عَامِل
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

работник
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

trabalhador
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

কর্মী
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

travailleur
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Pekerja
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Arbeiter
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

働く人
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

근로자
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Buruh
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

công nhân
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

தொழிலாளி
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

कार्यकर्ता
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

işçi
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

lavoratore
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

pracownik
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

працівник
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

muncitor
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

εργαζόμενος
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

werker
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

arbetare
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

arbeider
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of worker

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «WORKER»

The term «worker» is very widely used and occupies the 6.671 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «WORKER» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «worker» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «worker» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

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

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «WORKER»

Discover the use of worker in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to worker and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
The Miracle Worker
NO ONE COULD REACH HER Twelve-year-old Helen Keller lived in a prison of silence and darkness.
William Gibson, 2008
2
A Day in the Life of a Happy Worker
This edited collection brings together some of the leading researchers in the study of the daily experience of work and daily well-being.
Arnold B. Bakker, Kevin Daniels, 2013
3
Becoming a Social Worker: Global Narratives
This is a book about social workers and social work. It tells the story of the journey into and through social work of people from around the world living and working in social work today.
Viviene E. Cree, 2013
4
The Affluent Worker: Political Attitudes and Behaviour
In this 1968 volume the authors report on the voting and the political attitudes of a sample of highly-paid manual workers.
John H. Goldthorpe, David Lockwood, Frank Bechhofer, 1968
5
Jesus the Miracle Worker: A Historical and Theological Study
Graham Twelftree extensively examines the miracles of each Gospel narrative. He weighs their historical reliability and considers the question of miracles and the modern mind.
Graham H. Twelftree, 1999
6
The Emotionally Intelligent Social Worker
Elegantly and succinctly, David Howe explains the theory of emotional intelligence - and its vital practical value - to an audience of students and practitioners across a range of human services and caring professions.
David Howe, 2008
7
Worker Centers: Organizing Communities at the Edge of the Dream
Community-based worker centers help low-wage workers gain access to social services; advocate for their own civil and human rights; and organize to improve wages, working conditions, neighborhoods, and public schools.In this pathbreaking ...
Janice Ruth Fine, 2006
8
A Radical Worker in Tsarist Russia: The Autobiography of ...
Semen Kanatchikov, born in a central Russian village in 1879, was one of the thousands of peasants who made the transition from traditional village life to the life of an urban factory worker in Moscow and St. Petersburg in the last years ...
Semen Kanatchikov, Reginald E. Zelnik, 1986
9
The Affluent Worker in the Class Structure
This final book in The Affluent Worker series contains the findings and conclusions on the extent of working class embourgeoisment.
David Lockwood, Frank Bechhofer, Jennifer Platt, 1969
10
Wife Or Worker?: Asian Women and Migration
This volume challenges the perception of Asian women as either mail-order brides or overseas workers.
Nicola Piper, Mina Roces, 2003

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «WORKER»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term worker is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Tech industry's persistent claim of worker shortage may be phony
Alice Tornquist, a Washington lobbyist for the high-tech firm Qualcomm, took the stage at a recent Qualcomm-underwritten conference to remind her audience ... «Los Angeles Times, Aug 15»
2
Prison Worker Who Aided Escape Tells of Sex, Saw Blades and …
PLATTSBURGH, N.Y. — A small favor for a killer's daughter. A stolen kiss and a furtive sexual encounter. And ultimately, sneaking tools past guards for use in an ... «New York Times, Jul 15»
3
Car assembly line robot kills worker in Germany
(CNN) An automotive assembly line robot killed a worker at a car factory in ... Despite efforts to revive him, the worker, an employee of a third-party vendor, died ... «CNN, Jul 15»
4
Who's Speaking Up for the American Worker?
But unlike most of the lawmakers deciding the fate of America's role in international trade, I have spent much of the past three years talking to dislocated workers ... «New York Times, Jun 15»
5
Healthcare worker jailed for stealing from cancer patients
A healthcare worker who stole cash and jewellery from vulnerable cancer patients has been jailed. Jacqueline Perry, 49, was caught after colleagues at ... «BBC News, Jun 15»
6
Worker Is Killed During Attack at Upper West Side Shop
Emergency medical workers took the man to Mount Sinai St. Luke's, where he was pronounced dead. The authorities say he appeared to be in his 20s and have ... «New York Times, Jun 15»
7
In Turnabout, Disney Cancels Tech Worker Layoffs
It came in the midst of a furor over layoffs in January of 250 tech workers at Walt Disney World in Orlando, Fla. People who lost jobs there said they had to sit with ... «New York Times, Jun 15»
8
Prison Worker Joyce Mitchell Planned to 'Move On' With Escaped …
The prison worker charged with aiding in the escape of two convicted killers from a maximum-security correctional facility planned to meet the pair at midnight on ... «NBCNews.com, Jun 15»
9
Chinatown rape case: Worker at troubled group home arrested
A worker at a now-closed city group home for troubled youth has been arrested on charges he doctored a logbook to falsely show he was checking regularly on ... «WABC-TV, Jun 15»
10
Worker Shortage Hammers Builders
“As you're struggling to find more skilled workers, the more you can do ahead of time that requires fewer skilled workers is a help,” said Rilo Stephens, president ... «Wall Street Journal, Jun 15»

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