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: any of the sexually underdeveloped and usually sterile members of a colony of social ants, bees, wasps, or termites that perform most of the labor and protective duties of the colony
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Examples of worker in a Sentence
The company is planning to hire 200 workers.
The average worker earned $1,000 more this year.
If management doesn't make the changes, the workers will go on strike.
They are both hard workers.
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The virus has also infected four dairy workers across Michigan, Texas, and Colorado.
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Benjamin Thorp, NPR, 4 Sep. 2024
Beyond the hotel workers, limited duration strikes have been used to win labor deals for school employees in Los Angeles, health care workers at Kaiser Permanente, janitors, nursing home employees and other workers in Minnesota who went on strike together in March.
—Chris Isidore, CNN, 4 Sep. 2024
The Teamsters’ appeals argue that workers’ charter rights were violated and that imposing arbitration strips them of their right to collective bargaining.
—Glenn Taylor, Sourcing Journal, 4 Sep. 2024
Driving the news: Employers slashed the number of job openings in July and fired more workers, according to the Job Opening and Labor Turnover Survey data from the Labor Department.
—Courtenay Brown, Axios, 4 Sep. 2024
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Benjamin Thorp, NPR, 4 Sep. 2024
Beyond the hotel workers, limited duration strikes have been used to win labor deals for school employees in Los Angeles, health care workers at Kaiser Permanente, janitors, nursing home employees and other workers in Minnesota who went on strike together in March.
—Chris Isidore, CNN, 4 Sep. 2024
The Teamsters’ appeals argue that workers’ charter rights were violated and that imposing arbitration strips them of their right to collective bargaining.
—Glenn Taylor, Sourcing Journal, 4 Sep. 2024
Driving the news: Employers slashed the number of job openings in July and fired more workers, according to the Job Opening and Labor Turnover Survey data from the Labor Department.
—Courtenay Brown, Axios, 4 Sep. 2024
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“Worker.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/worker. Accessed 12 Sep. 2024.
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worker
noun
work·er
ˈwər-kər 
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: one that works
b
: a member of the working class
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: one of the members of a colony of social ants, bees, wasps, or termites that are only partially developed sexually and that perform most of the labor and protective duties of the colony
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