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

Containment efforts have also been hamstrung by insecurity, displacement, a health workers' strike and intense population movements. — Arkansas Online, 29 Sep. 2026

How the Saver’s Match will work The new Saver’s Match is part of an ongoing broader effort to help workers save for retirement. — Sarah Agostino, CNBC, 29 Sep. 2026

America’s children are tomorrow’s workers, innovators, caregivers, leaders, and defenders. — Stanley McChrystal, STAT, 29 Sep. 2026

Meanwhile, the Oklahoma Hospital Association reports critical shortages of health care workers across the state. — Sydney Lake, Fortune, 29 Sep. 2026

For the next hour and a half, the system transported the five rescue workers and the two bodies that were still at the bottom of the gorge. — Peter Hessler, New Yorker, 28 Sep. 2026

This transition aims to reduce physical strain on human workers by shifting high-risk and strenuous tasks directly to automation. — Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 28 Sep. 2026

Parents ship young children abroad; white-collar professionals become fast-food workers; migration cleaves young lovers. — Sanjena Sathian, Vulture, 22 Sep. 2026

An independent report in 2021 estimated 330,000 children had been abused over 70 years by some 3,000 priests and church workers. — ABC News, 21 Sep. 2026