Synonyms of workers

workers

noun

plural of worker

1

as in laborers

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

Synonyms & Similar Words

• laborers
• slaves
• toilers
• peons
• foot soldiers
• grubs
• pluggers
• grubbers
• grunts
• drones
• drudges
• drudgers
• sloggers
• dogsbodies
• serfs
• workhorses

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• shirkers
• idlers
• slugs
• loafers
• sluggards
• goldbricks
• lazybones
• slouches

2

as in employees

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

Synonyms & Similar Words

• employees
• laborers
• assistants
• colleagues
• jobholders
• hirelings
• hands
• associates
• subordinates
• retainers
• toilers
• underlings
• workingmen
• cogs
• workmen
• coworkers
• wage earners
• wageworkers
• navvies
• yes-men
• grubs
• workwomen
• workingwomen
• gandy dancers
• flunkies
• wage slaves
• jobbers
• drudges
• hacks
• temporaries
• temps
• nine-to-fivers

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• employers
• supervisors
• bosses
• superiors
• gaffers

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of workers

But the movement has widened to include workers demanding relief from rising living costs, making the government’s task broader than resolving a dispute over university admissions. — Thomas Adamson, Los Angeles Times, 27 Oct. 2026

Also according to the emergency service, consecutive Russian strikes on a shopping center in Kharkiv injured four people late on Saturday, including three rescue workers. — Arkansas Online, 26 Oct. 2026

Last year, Morgan Stanley predicted businesses will save nearly $1 trillion using AI to replace human workers. — Chintan Shah, Forbes.com, 26 Oct. 2026

In this way, tank tops can be assembled without human intervention between the fabric stack and finished product, though T-shirt production isn’t yet fully autonomous because workers must manually insert sleeves. — Jessica Binns, Vogue, 26 Oct. 2026

Under Anthropic's staggered lock-up schedule, workers and insiders will be able to sell an unspecified number of Class A shares as time passes after the debut. — Ashley Capoot,jordan Novet,annie Palmer,lora Kolodny,kai Nicol-Schwarz,caleigh Keating, CNBC, 26 Oct. 2026

Conflict-of-interest rules may bar some workers and their families from holding certain stocks; the Treasury has moved to ban ESG funds from accounts, but there’s no way for people to keep certain stocks out of their kids’ accounts. — Diane Brady, Fortune, 20 Oct. 2026

In declarations filed with the case, the cities said they had been forced to respond by training poll workers about voter intimidation, conducting outreach to the public and other actions. — Sharon Bernstein, Sacbee.com, 19 Oct. 2026

The unrest began as a student protest for better conditions and has expanded to include public-sector workers protesting high energy prices, the rising cost of living and social inequality. — Brittney Melton, NPR, 19 Oct. 2026