worker

Betekenis (Engels)

  1. One who works: a person who performs labor for a living; traditionally, especially, manual labor.
  2. A nonreproductive social insect, such as ant, bee, termite, or wasp.
  3. (rare) A nonreproductive social insect, such as ant, bee, termite, or wasp.
  4. A thread performing one instance of a particular task within a program.

Sinonieme

employee
B2
laborer
25k
labourer
33k
workman
28k
hand
A1
✋
operative
C1

working man

servant
B2
doer
29k
proletarian
31k
craftsman
23k
slave
B2

wage-earner

staff member

performer
C2
prole
coolie
37k

actor

artisan
36k
workingman
personnel
B2
wright
C1
labor
B2

good worker

manual laborer
maid
B2
staff
B1
man
A1
👨
subordinate
20k
mechanic
C1
🧑‍🔧
toiler
wage earner
team
A1

unskilled worker

warrior
B2
workforce
23k
workpeople
workshop
C1

able man

domestic help

unskilled laborer

worker bee
workwoman

able person

skilled workman

person being employed

rehabilitation
C2

temporary job

diligent person

industrious person

Vertalings

travailleur
Arbeiter
ouvrier
trabajador
lavoratore
operaio
obrero
arbeider
trabalhador
werker

εργάτης

işçi
operário
werkman
Frekwensie

B2
Uitgespreek as (IPA)
/ˈwɜː.kə/
Etimologie (Engels)

Geërf van Middle English
werkere
Verwante met Old English
wyrhta
In summary

From Middle English werkere, worcher, wercher, equivalent to work + -er. Displaced the older term wright, from Old English wyrhta.

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