worker

noun

1. 1

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

   Near-synonym: employee

   Fret not thy ſelfe becauſe of euill doers, neither bee thou enuious againſt the workers of iniquitie.

   Writer Ta Chen, in a statistical study of industrial labor in China in 1933, recorded that 66.6 percent of the total number of workers in the four main industrial regions of Kwangtung were women. In Shun-te, 81.2 percent of the labor force were women.

   Manganism has been known about since the 19th century, when miners exposed to ores containing manganese […] began to totter, slur their speech and behave like someone inebriated. The poisoning was irreversible, and soon ended in psychosis and death. Nowadays workers are exposed to far lower doses and manganism is rare.

2. 2

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

3. 3

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

4. 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.

Forms

plural

workers