worker [wur-ker]
Main Entry:
worker [wur-ker]
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: person who is employed
Synonyms: artisan, blue collar, breadwinner, company person, craftsperson, employee, hand, help, laborer, nine-to-fiver, operative, peasant, proletarian, serf, slave, stiff, toiler, trader, tradesperson, wage earner, white collar, working person, working stiff
Antonyms: unemployed
Main Entry: carpenter
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: person who works with wood
Synonyms: artisan, builder, cabinetmaker, carps, chips, craftsperson, joiner, laborer, mason, woodworker, worker
Main Entry: clerk
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: assistant
Synonyms: agent, amanuensis, auditor, bookkeeper, cashier, copyist, counter jumper, counterperson, employee, notary, office helper, operator, paper pusher, paper shuffler, pen pusher, pencil pusher, receptionist, recorder, registrar, salesperson, secretary, seller, shopperson, stenographer, teller, transcriber, white collar, worker
Notes: clergy first meant 'learning, scholarship' and clerk had the original meaning 'man ordained to the Christian ministry'
Main Entry: crew
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: group working together
Synonyms: aggregation, assemblage, band, bevy, bunch, cluster, collection, company, complement, congregation, corps, covey, crowd, faction, gang, hands, herd, horde, lot, mob, organization, pack, party, posse, retinue, sailors, sect, set, squad, swarm, team, troop, troupe, workers, working party
Main Entry: drudge
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: slave, very hard worker
Synonyms: factotum, grind*, laborer, menial, nose to grindstone, peon*, plodder, servant, toiler, workaholic, worker, workhorse
Antonyms: idler, laze
Main Entry: employee
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: person being paid for working for another or a corporation
Synonyms: agent, apprentice, assistant, attendant, blue collar, breadwinner, clerk, cog, company person, craftsperson, desk jockey, domestic, hand, help, hired gun, hired hand, hireling, jobholder, laborer, member, operator, pink collar, plug*, representative, sales help, salesperson, servant, slave, staff member, wage-earner, white collar, worker, working stiff
Main Entry: faculty
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: teachers in educational institution
Synonyms: academics, advisers, body, clinic, college, corps, department, employees, institute, instructors, lecturers, literati, mentors, organization, pedagogues, personnel, professorate, professors, profs, researchers, scholars, society, staff, tutors, university, workers
Antonyms: students
Main Entry: gang
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: group, mob of people
Synonyms: assemblage, band, bunch, circle, clan, clique, club, cluster, combo, company, coterie, crew, crowd, herd, horde, knot, lot, organization, outfit, pack, party, posse, ring, set, shift, squad, syndicate, team, tribe, troop, troupe, workers, zoo
Main Entry: hand
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: person who does labor
Synonyms: aide, artificer, artisan, craftsperson, employee, help, helper, hired person, laborer, operative, roustabout, worker
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