/ˈwɜːkə/
Translation
A person who works, especially someone who does a job for money.
Word origin
From work plus the ending -er, meaning one who works.
- Origin
- Old English
- Root
- weorc
Grammar
Examples
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"Worker" is a person who works.
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"Workers" is the plural, meaning more than one worker.
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Here "worker" tells us what kind of person she is at her job.
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