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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: | proletariat |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | working class |
| Synonyms: | blue-collar workers, bourgeoisie, common people, commoners, hoi polloi, lower class, peasant, plebians, proletarian, rank and file, working stiff |
| Notes: | bourgeoisie is the middle class, while the proletariat is a lower working class |
| 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: | 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: | working class |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | common laborers |
| Synonyms: | blue-collar workers, common laborer, factory laborer, factory laborers, grass roots, laboring class, plebeians, proles, proletariat, rank and file, the other half, unskilled laborer, unskilled laborers, wage-earners, workers, workfolk, working people, working stiff, working stiffs, workpeople |
| Main Entry: | jobholder |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | employee |
| Synonyms: | agent, apprentice, assistant, attendant, blue collar, breadwinner, clerk, cog, company person, craftsperson, desk jockey, domestic, hand, help, hired gun, hired hand, hireling, 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: | roustabout |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | laborer |
| Synonyms: | blue-collar worker, drudge, farmhand, grunt, hand, hireling, manual worker, migrant worker, operative, peon*, unskilled worker, worker, working girl, working man/woman, working stiff, workingman, workingwoman, workman, workwoman |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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