Meaning

4 senses
  1. One who works: a person who performs labor for a living; traditionally, especially, manual labor.

    Near-synonym: employee

    Arbeiter, Arbeiterin, Angestellter

    рабо́тникrabótnik, рабо́тницаrabótnica, рабо́чийrabóčij

    робітни́кrobitnýk, робітни́цяrobitnýcja, працівни́кpracivnýk

    a person who works at a specific occupation

  2. A nonreproductive social insect, such as ant, bee, termite, or wasp.

    Arbeiterin, Arbeitsameise, Arbeitsbiene

    рабо́чийrabóčij, рабо́чая пчела́rabóčaja pčelá, рабо́чая оса́rabóčaja osá

  3. A nonreproductive social insect, such as ant, bee, termite, or wasp.

    (rare)A female ant, bee, termite or wasp.

  4. A thread performing one instance of a particular task within a program.

    This FTP client spawns a separate worker for each file to be uploaded.

Examples

1147 sentences
  1. His brother is a hard worker.

    Його брат дуже старанний працівник.

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  2. He's just an ordinary office worker.

    Він звичайний офісний працівник.

    ruОн - простой офисный служащий.

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  3. Tom is really a good worker.

    Том дуже добрий працівник.

    ruТом — действительно хороший работник.

    deTom ist wirklich ein guter Arbeiter.

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  4. You're a construction worker, aren't you?

    Ти ж будівельник?

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  5. Tom is a very good worker.

    Том дуже добрий працівник.

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Translations

9 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
person who performs labor:
Русский
By meaning 2
person who performs labor:
insect:
Deutsch
By meaning 2
person who performs labor:
insect:

Origin

Inherited from Middle English worchere, werkere, equivalent to work + -er. Displaced the o

Inherited from Middle English worchere, werkere, equivalent to work + -er. Displaced the older term wright, from Old English wyrhta.

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Forms

plural: workers
Singularworker
Pluralworkers

regular

Synonyms

6 synonyms
Close in meaning

Antonyms

9 antonyms

Word family

156 related words

Collocations

12 patterns
  • a construction worker
  • hard worker
  • a hard worker
  • construction worker
  • a good worker
  • good worker
  • a social worker
  • co workers
  • very hard worker
  • social worker
  • best best worker
  • the workers are

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
worker — meaning, examples, forms, synonyms | Krumeto