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| Main Entry: | |
| 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 |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| 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 |
| Main Entry: | labor |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person(s) performing service |
| Synonyms: | apprentice, blue collar, breadwinner, employee, hack*, hand*, hard hat, help, helper, hireling, instrument, laborer, learner, operative, prentice, proletariat, rank and file, toiler, work force, worker, working people |
| Antonyms: | management, manager |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | worker |
| 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: | hireling |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | hack |
| Synonyms: | aide, employee, laborer, worker, worker |
| Main Entry: | blue-collar worker |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | manual or technical laborer |
| Synonyms: | common laborer, employee, factory worker, hand, industrial worker, laborer, lunch-bucket worker, member of the working class, nonoffice worker, proletarian, working stiff, workingman, workingwoman |
| Main Entry: | wage earner |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person earning income |
| Synonyms: | breadwinner, employee, income producer, jobholder, one who brings home the bacon, salaried worker, staff member, staffer, wage slave, wageworker |
| Main Entry: | retainer |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | staff |
| Synonyms: | adherents, appliance, attendant, clique, company, cortege, crew, employee, entourage, fee, followers, gang, minion, retinue, servant, train |
| 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 |
| Notes: | a facility is a building or place that provides a particular service or is used for a particular industry or a skillful performance or ability without difficulty; faculty is one of the inherent cognitive or perceptual powers of the mind or the body of teachers and administrators at a school |
| Antonyms: | students |
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