worker
Meanings
noun
- One who works: a person who performs labor for a living; traditionally, especially, manual labor.
- A nonreproductive social insect, such as ant, bee, termite, or wasp.
- A female ant, bee, termite or wasp.
- A thread performing one instance of a particular task within a program.
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From Middle English werkere, worcher, wercher, equivalent to work + -er. Displaced the older term wright, from Old English wyrhta.
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