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worker (iou)



worker noun. ME.
[from WORK verb + -ER1.]
A creator or producer of or of a thing or effect; spec. (a) God as creator; (b) a doer of evil, a deed, etc.; a performer of a specified kind of action. arch. ME.
W. Morris She grew to be the sorceress, Worker of fearful things. R. Ellison As a numbers runner he is..a worker of miracles.
A person who works or does work of any kind, nature, or quality; spec. (a) one who works in a specified medium; (b) one employed in a specified trade, industry, or position (freq. as 2nd elem. of comb.); (c) a waged industrial employee or manual labourer; (d) in pl., working-class people collectively. LME.
cloth-worker, factory-worker, metalworker, etc. fast worker: see FAST adjective. PSYCHIATRIC social worker. slave worker: see SLAVE noun1 & adjective1. social worker: see SOCIAL adjective.
Black Panther Karl Marx's famous credo: 'Workers of the World, Unite'. New Society Some increase..in the proportion of..salaried workers. A. Storr Freud was..an extremely hard worker.
b. A person who works hard. E17.
H. B. Stowe A dreamy, neutral spectator..when he should have been a worker.
a. A bullock, horse, etc., used as draught animal. Now Austral. E17.
b. A dog or other animal that works (well). M19.
(An individual of) a caste in social insects, as ants and bees, which consists of sterile females that supply food and perform other services for the colony. M18.
Comb.: worker-director a worker who is also on the board of directors of a firm; worker participation participation of workers in the management of their firm or industry; worker priest (a) a Roman Catholic priest in postwar France who earned his living as a factory-worker or the like; (b) gen. a priest engaged (usually part-time) in secular work; workers' cooperative a business or industry owned and managed by those who work for it.
workerist adjective of, pertaining to, or characteristic of a proletarian or worker-oriented view of society; (too) sympathetic to the role of labour in the class struggle: M20.
workerless adjective without workers; spec. (Entomology) designating a (usu. parasitic) ant species that lacks a caste system: E20.