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

Derived forms: workers

Type of: causal agency, causal agent, cause, common person, commoner, insect

Antonym: nonworker

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

Encyclopedia: Worker, George