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: any of the sexually underdeveloped and usually sterile members of a colony of social ants, bees, wasps, or termites that perform most of the labor and protective duties of the colony
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The company is planning to hire 200 workers.
The average worker earned $1,000 more this year.
If management doesn't make the changes, the workers will go on strike.
They are both hard workers.
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Fire crews were filling sandbags for communities while county workers installed barriers and cleared drainage pipes and basins.
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Marcio Jose Sanchez, Chicago Tribune, 22 Jan. 2025
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—Katie Kilkenny, The Hollywood Reporter, 22 Jan. 2025
What workers want, as do customers, is an alignment to their values.
—Wayne Elsey, Forbes, 22 Jan. 2025
But when the choir travels to a countryside convent for a weekend of intensive rehearsals, Lucia’s interest in a dark-eyed restoration worker tests her friendship with Ana-Maria and the other girls.
—Leo Barraclough, Variety, 22 Jan. 2025
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Marcio Jose Sanchez, Chicago Tribune, 22 Jan. 2025
Related Stories News Flavor Flav Launches Fundraiser for Black Families Displaced by L.A. Wildfires
Shire and Sims are just two of the thousands of entertainment workers whose lives have been upended by the Los Angeles wildfires that tore through sections of the L.A. area starting Jan. 7.
—Katie Kilkenny, The Hollywood Reporter, 22 Jan. 2025
What workers want, as do customers, is an alignment to their values.
—Wayne Elsey, Forbes, 22 Jan. 2025
But when the choir travels to a countryside convent for a weekend of intensive rehearsals, Lucia’s interest in a dark-eyed restoration worker tests her friendship with Ana-Maria and the other girls.
—Leo Barraclough, Variety, 22 Jan. 2025
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“Worker.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/worker. Accessed 29 Jan. 2025.
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worker
noun
work·er
ˈwər-kər 
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: one that works
b
: a member of the working class
2
: one of the members of a colony of social ants, bees, wasps, or termites that are only partially developed sexually and that perform most of the labor and protective duties of the colony
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