worker

noun
/ˈwɜː.kə/

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

Other meanings

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

Example sentences

“All workers must wear steel-toe boots.”
Tatoeba · ddnktr · CC0
“My friend is a salt worker.”
Tatoeba · Igider · CC0
“The workers have no country.”
Tatoeba · shekitten · CC0

Word history

From Middle English "werkere".

Where this comes from

This definition is adapted from “worker” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; example sentences are from Tatoeba, credited to their authors above, published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.