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1. A person who works at a specific occupation
   "he is a good worker"
    
2. A member of the working class (not necessarily employed)
   "workers of the world--unite!";
   - proletarian, prole
    
3. Sterile member of a colony of social insects that forages for food and cares for the larvae
    
4. A person who acts and gets things done
   "he's a miracle worker";
   - actor, doer

Derived forms: workers

Type of: common man, common person, commoner, individual, insect, mortal, person, somebody, someone, soul

Antonym: nonworker

Part of: labor [US], labour [Brit, Cdn], proletariat, proletariate [archaic], working class

Encyclopedia: Worker, George