Synonyms for worker
ˈwɜr kərwork·er

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1. workernoun

   A person who performs labor for his living, especially manual labor.

   Synonyms:
   laborer

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1. workernoun

   a person who works at a specific occupation

   "he is a good worker"

   Synonyms:
   actor, prole, proletarian, doer

   Antonyms:
   nonworker

2. proletarian, prole, workernoun

   a member of the working class (not necessarily employed)

   "workers of the world--unite!"

   Synonyms:
   actor, prole, proletarian, doer

   Antonyms:
   nonworker

3. workernoun

   sterile member of a colony of social insects that forages for food and cares for the larvae

   Synonyms:
   actor, prole, proletarian, doer

   Antonyms:
   nonworker

4. actor, doer, workernoun

   a person who acts and gets things done

   "he's a principal actor in this affair"; "when you want something done get a doer"; "he's a miracle worker"

   Synonyms:
   prole, player, role player, proletarian, doer, thespian, actor, histrion

   Antonyms:
   nonworker

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1. harvateranoun

   harvatera is a "night-shift worker" in macao.

   lena is a worker or harvatera in macao.

   Submitted by cyclonetrading on February 14, 2022  

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1. workernoun

   Synonyms:
   artisan, artificer, craftsman, handicraftsman, journeyman, mechanic, workman, laborer, operative, industrial

   Antonyms:
   idler, drone, dabbler, sluggard, truant, dilettante, loafer, shirker

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1. List of paraphrases for "worker":

   workers, employee, labourer, workman, wizard, laborer, working, probation, travailleurs, labour

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1. Helen Keller:

   The world is moved not only by the mighty shoves of the heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker.

2. Albert Einstein:

   I am absolutely convinced that no wealth in the world can help humanity forward, even in the hands of the most devoted worker. The example of great and pure individuals is the only thing that can lead us to noble thoughts and deeds. Money only appeals to selfishness and irresistibly invites abuse. Can anyone imagine Moses, Jesus or Ghandi armed with the money-bags of Carnegie

3. William Jefferson Clinton:

   You need to know that a member of Congress who refuses to allow the minimum wage to come up for a vote made more money during last year's one-month government shutdown than a minimum wage worker makes in an entire year.

4. Francis Bacon:

   If any human being earnestly desire to push on to new discoveries instead of just retaining and using the old to win victories over Nature as a worker rather than over hostile critics as a disputant to attain , in fact, clear and demonstrative knowlegde instead of attractive and probable theory we invite him as a true son of Science to join our ranks.

5. Ayn Rand:

   If there is any one proof of a man's incompetence, it is the stagnant mentality of a worker who, doing some small routine job in a vast undertaking, does not care to look beyond the lever of a machine, does not choose to know how the machine got there or what makes his job possible, and proclaims that the management of the undertaking is parasitical and unneccessary.