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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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The bureau sued financial services companies for misleading consumers and employers for misleading workers.
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Cora Lewis, Los Angeles Times, 15 Feb. 2025
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—Josh Hammer, Newsweek, 15 Feb. 2025
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Cora Lewis, Los Angeles Times, 15 Feb. 2025
While some believe tipping should be purely voluntary, many service industry workers depend on gratuities as their primary source of income.
—Josh Hammer, Newsweek, 15 Feb. 2025
Linda Gefen, Boca Raton The master of distraction Trump’s proposal that the U.S. take over the Gaza Strip and develop it into a beach paradise was concocted to distract us from his real agenda: demolish the government, replace federal workers with machines and give the savings to his rich friends.
—Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 15 Feb. 2025
Many human cases of bird flu in the U.S. to date have been in dairy workers after working with sick cows infected by the B3.13 strain of the H5N1 virus.
—Alexander Tin, CBS News, 15 Feb. 2025
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“Worker.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/worker. Accessed 21 Feb. 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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