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as in laborer
a person who does very hard or dull work
a champion of the rights of the farm workers who pick the nation's fruits and vegetables
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as in employee
one who works for another for wages or a salary
a factory owner who is known for his fair and generous treatment of his workers
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Recent Examples of worker
Hotel worker Adrianarivony Fanomegantsoa, 22, told Reuters his 300,000-ariary ($67) monthly salary was barely enough to cover food, explaining his reasons for joining the protests.
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CNN Money, 13 Oct. 2025
Directed by Tatsuya Yoshihara with a screenplay by Hiroshi Seko, the movie follows Denji as his encounter with café worker Reze leads to a clash between intimate connection and bloody chaos.
—Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 13 Oct. 2025
At other companies, leaders and managers said communication among workers, teams and managers improves when all are together on site, Uzzaman said.
—Ethan Baron, Mercury News, 13 Oct. 2025
About half his workers had taken a Sea Grant training course.
—Emma Green, New Yorker, 13 Oct. 2025
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CNN Money, 13 Oct. 2025
Directed by Tatsuya Yoshihara with a screenplay by Hiroshi Seko, the movie follows Denji as his encounter with café worker Reze leads to a clash between intimate connection and bloody chaos.
—Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 13 Oct. 2025
At other companies, leaders and managers said communication among workers, teams and managers improves when all are together on site, Uzzaman said.
—Ethan Baron, Mercury News, 13 Oct. 2025
About half his workers had taken a Sea Grant training course.
—Emma Green, New Yorker, 13 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for worker
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This film exposes the harsh contrast between the lives of people who enjoy cutting-edge technology in Silicon Valley and the laborers in the Global South who teach the machines to see.—
Matthew Carey,
Deadline,
15 Oct. 2025
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Finding enough workers to fill open landscaping positions has long been a struggle, even when firms can bring in foreign laborers.—
Aldo Svaldi,
Denver Post,
12 Oct. 2025
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The council had already rejected Allied once before, months earlier, over settlements — including back wages — that the company has had to pay out to current and former employees.—
Shomik Mukherjee,
Mercury News,
17 Oct. 2025
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Nestlé announces layoffs Nestlé CEO Philipp Navratil announced in a LinkedIn post on Thursday that the company is laying off more than 16,000 employees—mostly white-collar positions—to cut costs.—
Diane Brady,
Fortune,
17 Oct. 2025
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Obviously, that spoke to me, because my ancestors were slaves.—
Kyle Denis,
Billboard,
15 Oct. 2025
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Newsom said in a statement that the bill sought to clarify that California’s educational institutions may consider providing a preference in admission to an applicant who was a descendant of a slave, which was not needed.—
Robert Birsel,
MSNBC Newsweek,
14 Oct. 2025
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“Worker.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/worker. Accessed 21 Oct. 2025.
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