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worker

[wur-ker] / ˈwɜr kər /
NOUN
person who is employed
Synonyms
STRONGEST
employee laborer staff
STRONG
artisan breadwinner craftsperson hand help operative proletarian serf stiff toiler tradesperson
WEAK
blue collar company person nine-to-fiver wage earner white collar working person working stiff

Example Sentences

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“The customer was just providing details when her husband came forward and grabbed the mobile phone started argument and cut the call,” a worker had scrawled in looped letters on a preprinted form.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 20, 2026

I’d worked as a server, an office clerk, an adjunct professor and a retail worker putting myself through school.

From Salon • Apr. 19, 2026

At a house where a construction worker dumped lumber onto the sidewalk, Phillips strode up and asked what the thought would happen to the scrap pile.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 18, 2026

Plus, how a Hong Kong factory worker made her fortune and why some workers are physically climbing on their bosses.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 17, 2026

“I didn’t help my mom,” he told the social worker.

From "Not Nothing" by Gayle Forman