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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
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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CBS News, 28 Apr. 2025
At the same time that Bass is proposing cuts to the Equity Bureau, her budget calls for an overall increase in Fire Department workers.
—Noah Goldberg, Los Angeles Times, 28 Apr. 2025
With the right training, young workers can balance communities’ need to rebuild quickly and affordably with the need to rebuild safely.
—Jim Pauley, Forbes.com, 28 Apr. 2025
Trump’s relationship with the judiciary has been strained by recent rulings involving immigration and the firing of federal workers.
—Brian Niemietz, New York Daily News, 28 Apr. 2025
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“Worker.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/worker. Accessed 1 May. 2025.
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worker
noun
work·er
ˈwər-kər 
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: one that works
b
: a member of the working class
2
: 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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