Category:Worker

Work, n. Etym: [oe. work, werk, weork, as. weorc, worc; akin to Ofries. werk, wirk, os., D., & g. werk, ohg. werc, werah, icel. & sw. Verk, dan. værk, goth. gawaúrki, gr. verez to work. Bulwark, energy, Erg, georgic, liturgy, metallurgy, organ, surgeon, wright.]

Worker, n.

1. One who exerts strength or faculties; physical or intellectual effort directed to an end; industrial activity; toil; employment; sometimes, specifically, physically labor.

2. One who exerts one's self for a purpose; to put forth effort for the attainment of an object; to labor; to be engaged in the performance of a task, a duty, or the like.

3. One who operates; acts; performs. As a machine worker he does well.

4. One who labors or operates upon; giving exertion and effort to; preparing items for use, or utilizing, by labor.

5. One who produces or forms by labor; bringing forth by exertion or toil; accomplishing; originating; effecting; as, to be a woodworker or iron worker making a product into a desired form, or into a utensil; to be a textile worker making cotton or wool into cloth.

6. One who sets in motion or action; directs the action of; keeps at work; governs; manages; as, a worker at a machine.

7. One who forms with a needle and thread or yarn; as this type of worker is called a seamstress. especially, one who does embroidery; as this type of worker is called an embroiderer.