Definition of "worker" []

• One who works at a particular occupation or activity: an office worker. (noun)
• One who does manual or industrial labor. (noun)
• A member of the working class. (noun)
• A member of a colony of social insects such as ants, bees, wasps, or termites, usually a sterile female but often a sexually immature individual of either sex, that performs specialized work such as building the nest, collecting and storing food, and feeding other members of the colony. (noun)

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• "Unemployement benefits are not tax payer dollars in the sense that a worker is a tax payer."
• "He says there was an effort early on among EPA officials to look at possible illegal behavior, based on what he described as worker complaints that management repeatedly ignored warnings that the corrosion problem needed to be addressed."
• "Because state laws vary, even if a worker is exempt under the FLSA, state law may entitle the worker to overtime pay."