Worker

Noun

 * 1) A person who performs labor for his living, especially manual labor.
 * 2) A nonreproductive social insect, such as ant, bee, termite or wasp.

Synonyms

 * employee
 * laborer
 * work force

Thesaurus
actor, agent, ant, architect, army ant, artisan, assistant, author, bee, black ant, blue-collar worker, brainworker, brassworker, breadwinner, bumblebee, carpenter ant, casual, casual laborer, clothworker, common laborer, craftsman, creator, day laborer, doer, drone, emmet, employee, executant, executor, executrix, fabricator, factory worker, fieldworker, fire ant, flintworker, flunky, free lance, free-lancer, full-time worker, garmentworker, girl Friday, glassworker, goldworker, hand, handicraftsman, hired hand, hired man, hireling, honeybee, hornet, house ant, industrial worker, ironworker, jobber, jobholder, laborer, laboring man, laceworker, leatherworker, maker, man Friday, mechanic, medium, menial, mercenary, metalworker, migrant, millworker, mineworker, moiler, mover, myrmidon, navvy, needleworker, office temporary, operant, operative, operator, pensioner, performer, perpetrator, pismire, practitioner, prime mover, producer, proletarian, queen, queen bee, red ant, right-hand man, roustabout, salaried worker, self-employed person, servant, slave ant, soldier, stiff, subject, temporary, termite, toiler, wage earner, wage slave, wageworker, wasp, workgirl, workhand, working girl, workingman, workingwoman, workman, yellow jacket

Etymology
From to work + -er.

Translations

 * Arabic:
 * Armenian: աշխատող,
 * Asturian: obreru
 * Bengali: কর্মী
 * Breton: labourer, micherour
 * Bulgarian: работник (rabótnik), работничка (rabótnička)
 * Catalan: treballador, treballadora
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:, 工作者, 勞動者, 劳动者, 劳工
 * Czech: ,
 * Dutch: ,
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish:
 * French:, ,
 * German: ,
 * Hindi: मज़दूर
 * Hungarian:
 * Indonesian: buruh
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 働く人 (はたらくひと, hataraku hito), 労働者
 * Korean: (勞動者)


 * Kurdish:
 * Maltese: ħaddiem, ħaddiema
 * Manx: obbree
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: arbeider
 * Nynorsk: arbeidar
 * Persian:
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian: lucrător, lucrătoare; muncitor , muncitoare
 * Russian:, ,  ,  труженик
 * Scottish Gaelic: obraiche, neach-obrach
 * Serbian: ,
 * Slovak: robotník, robotníčka
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swedish:
 * Thai: คนงาน
 * Urdu: مزدور
 * Vietnamese: công nhân
 * Volapük: voban,  hivoban, female


 * Breton: labourerez
 * Czech:
 * Finnish:
 * Hungarian:


 * Indonesian: pekerja
 * Polish: robotnica
 * Spanish:

Anagrams

 * rework