WORKERS Synonyms: 61 Similar and Opposite Words

workers

noun

plural of worker

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

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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

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Recent Examples of workers Courts are also deciding lawsuits over whether workers were illegally fired in retaliation for doing their jobs under previous administrations. —

Aysha Bagchi, USA Today, 14 June 2026 Much of his business relies on workers from India, which is home to 73% of H-1B visa holders, according to 2023 numbers from the Pew Research Center. —

Shanelle Kaul, CBS News, 14 June 2026 Minsch added that Switzerland’s reliance on highly qualified foreign workers, especially in sectors such as pharmaceuticals, technology and healthcare. —

Chloe Taylor, CNBC, 13 June 2026 Critics have warned that a yes vote could have major repercussions for the Swiss economy, which relies on foreign workers to fill many roles. —

Sebastian Shukla, CNN Money, 13 June 2026 The controversy comes even as Meloni’s government pursues a parallel policy of expanding legal migration, having approved a multiyear plan to admit hundreds of thousands of non-EU workers to address labor shortages in key economic sectors. —

ABC News, 13 June 2026 So in 2022, Helen Keller and some other nonprofits partnered with the Senegal Ministry of Health to try something different - training and equipping community health workers to treat severe acute malnutrition. —

Jonathan Lambert, NPR, 13 June 2026 The union that represented the West Sacramento workers — Nor Cal Beverage Employees’ Union — dissolved. —

Sacbee.com, 13 June 2026 Now Crosswhite can acknowledge the beauty in the art, respect the workers who crafted the carvings, and appreciate the opportunity to tell a story larger than the monument itself. —

Arati Menon, Condé Nast Traveler, 7 June 2026

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As recounted by Peter Biskind in Easy Riders, Raging Bulls, Cimino ran long and went over budget on his epic drama about the Johnson County War, which saw cattle barons attacking immigrant laborers in late 19th-century Wyoming.

— Britt Hayes, Entertainment Weekly, 16 June 2026
So on market days, local Colored laborers would follow in the tradition of the formerly enslaved, riding donkeys, horses, or rowing boats to other parishes where food was in greater supply and available for sale.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 16 June 2026