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One who works: a person who performs labor for a living; traditionally, especially, manual labor.
- Near-synonym: employee
- 2
A nonreproductive social insect, such as ant, bee, termite, or wasp.
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A nonreproductive social insect, such as ant, bee, termite, or wasp.; A female ant, bee, termite or wasp.rare
- 4
A thread performing one instance of a particular task within a program.
- This FTP client spawns a separate worker for each file to be uploaded.
syn. proletarian · worker
ant. boss · chief · director · employer · leader · manager · idler · scrounger