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English Dictionary: worker by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
worker
n
  1. a person who works at a specific occupation; "he is a good worker"
    Antonym(s): nonworker
  2. a member of the working class (not necessarily employed); "workers of the world--unite!"
    Synonym(s): proletarian, prole, worker
  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 principal actor in this affair"; "when you want something done get a doer"; "he's a miracle worker"
    Synonym(s): actor, doer, worker
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Worker \Work"er\, n.
      1. One who, or that which, works; a laborer; a performer; as,
            a worker in brass.
  
                     Professors of holiness, but workers of iniquity.
                                                                              --Shak.
  
      2. (Zo[94]l.) One of the neuter, or sterile, individuals of
            the social ants, bees, and white ants. The workers are
            generally females having the sexual organs imperfectly
            developed. See {Ant}, and {White ant}, under {White}.
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