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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Worker \Work"er\, n.
1. One who or that which works a laborer; a performer; as
a worker in brass.
Professors of holiness, but workers of iniquity.
--Shak.
2. (Zo["o]l.) One of the neuter, or sterile, individuals of
the social ants, bees, and white ants. The workers are
generally females having the sexual organs imperfectly
developed. See {Ant}, and {White ant}, under {White}.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
worker
n 1: a person who works at a specific job; "he is a good worker"
[ant: {nonworker}]
2: a member of the working class (not necessarily employed);
"workers of the world--unite!" [syn: {proletarian}, {prole}]
3: sterile member of a colony of social insects that forages
for food and cares for the larvae
4: a person who acts and gets things done "he's a principal
actor in this affair"; "when you want something done get a
doer"; "he's a miracle worker" [syn: {actor}, {doer}]
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