worker

Plural

workers

1. 1.One who works: a person who performs labor for a living; traditionally, especially, manual labor.

   • That would allow employers to keep some tip money for themselves, as long as each worker made at least the full federal minimum wage of $7.25 an hour.
   • Although the radiation levels identified are high, a threat to human health is very unlikely because apart from workers at the site, no-one goes there.

2. 2.A nonreproductive social insect, such as ant, bee, termite, or wasp.

   • I've always been a hard worker.

3. 3.A thread performing one instance of a particular task within a program.

   • This FTP client spawns a separate worker for each file to be uploaded.

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• work