Syn: colleague, coworker, fellow worker, fellow-worker, workfellow. [1913 Webster + WordNet 1.5]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English. 2000.
worker — work‧er [ˈwɜːkə ǁ ˈwɜːrkər] noun [countable] HUMAN RESOURCES one of the people who work for an organization or business, and are below the level of manager: • There are new health and safety regulations for factory workers. • Many office workers… … Financial and business terms
Worker-Priest — was a missionary initiative by the French Catholic Church in particular for priests to take up work in such places as car factories to experience the everyday life of the working class. A worker priest was any priest who was freed from parochial… … Wikipedia
Worker center — Worker centers (alternatively workers centers or workers centers) are non profit organizations that organize workers who are not already members of a collective bargaining organization (such as a trade union). Many worker centers in the United… … Wikipedia
Worker (disambiguation) — Worker may refer to:* Worker, a person who performs labour * Worker animal, an animal castePeople with the surname Worker:* George Worker (born 1989), New Zealand cricketer * Norman Worker (1927 2005), British comic book writer … Wikipedia
worker — worker, workman, workingman, laborer, craftsman, handicraftsman, mechanic, artisan, hand, operative, roustabout can all mean one who earns his living by labor, especially by manual labor. Worker, the most comprehensive and least specific of these … New Dictionary of Synonyms
worker — index apprentice, artisan, employee Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 worker … Law dictionary
Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act — (WARN) A federal law that requires employers with at least 100 employees to give workers some advance notice of an impending plant closing or mass layoff that will result in job loss or more than a 50% hours cut for a certain number or percentage … Law dictionary
worker's compensation — worker s ,compensation or worker s comp noun count usually singular in the U.S., money that a company must pay to a worker who becomes sick or injured because of their job … Usage of the words and phrases in modern English
worker participation — noun 1. The involvement of workers in decision making 2. See also ↑participate • • • Main Entry: ↑work * * * worker participation UK US noun [uncountable] business the idea of involvi … Useful english dictionary
Worker — Work er, n. 1. One who, or that which, works; a laborer; a performer; as, a worker in brass. [1913 Webster] Professors of holiness, but workers of iniquity. Shak. [1913 Webster] 2. (Zo[ o]l.) One of the neuter, or sterile, individuals of the… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
Worker's Playtime — may be a variant spelling of *Workers Playtime: a BBC radio programme (1941 64) *Workers Playtime: a music album by BB Blunder (1971) *Workers Playtime: an ultraleft magazine (1984 85) *Workers Playtime: a music album by Billy Bragg (1988)*… … Wikipedia
