worker
n. countablen. a person who does a job to earn money. It can also describe someone who works in a specific way, like a hard worker.
n. an individual who performs labor for wages or salary, particularly in manual or industrial sectors. Often used in compounds to specify a field or level of effort.
The factory has over five hundred workers.
Social workers provide essential support to families in the community who are facing difficult financial times.
The transition to an automated assembly line significantly reduced the number of manual workers required to maintain daily production quotas.
From Middle English werkere, worcher, wercher, equivalent to work + -er. Displaced the older term wright, from Old English wyrhta.
Commonly used in compound nouns such as 'office worker', 'social worker', or 'construction worker'.