worker

Definition

One who works: a person who performs labor for a living; traditionally, especially, manual labor.

Etymology

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

Example Sentences

• "Near-synonym: employee"
• "Fret not thy ſelfe becauſe of euill doers, neither bee thou enuious againſt the workers of iniquitie."
• "Writer Ta Chen, in a statistical study of industrial labor in China in 1933, recorded that 66.6 percent of the total number of workers in the four main industrial regions of Kwangtung were women. In Shun-te, 81.2 percent of the labor force were women."