Sterile member of a colony of social insects that forages for food and cares for the larvae

Usage examples of worker.

Hispanic field workers have gathered in front of the admin building and are yelling something about better housing and recreation facilities.

I soaked it up like a sponge, listening eagerly to the advice of adoptive parents, their grown children, clinical psychologists, advocates, social workers, and adoption resource professionals.

He recalled in his affidavit some of these reports of conditions in eight camps inhabited by Russian and Polish workers : overcrowding that bred disease, lack of enough food to keep a man alive, lack of water, lack of toilets.

That dark, wire-haired woman Kumul had found to measure up Ager and then sew and stitch the blue jerkin and pants was a miracle worker.

His simple idea was that the Marxists should support the workers in efforts to unionize and to ameliorate their conditions.

Near the foot-bridge that stretched over the grey tops of the Atlas cedars, stood a white truncated pyramid of porcelain-like aplite from the River Lualaba, surmounted by the statue of a worker of an age long past.

The second shift of workers moved into the aquarium, relieving the first shift.

Two horses, a pair of riders, surrounded by the gang of aqueduct workers who had abandoned their evening meal to listen to what was happening.

Chang followed an indication on the audiometer from the patch to the bugs there, and sure enough, it sounded as if workers were setting up for yet another meeting in the first-class cabin.

Shape-ups were held in the predawn down by the Vineland courthouse, shadowy brown buses idling in the dark, work and wages posted silently in the windows some mornings Zoyd had gone down, climbed on, ridden out with other newcomers, all cherry to the labor market up here, former artists or spiritual pilgrims now becoming choker setters, waiters and waitresses, baggers and checkout clerks, tree workers, truckdrivers, and framers, or taking temporary swamping jobs like this, all in the service of others, the ones who did the building, selling, buying and speculating.

A couple of local workers were waiting, one with a bandaged hand, the other looking pale and weak.

GV Biogas and Methane Corporation, a new start-up business, drew me from the pool of available workers.

Several of the blonder workers had shed their shirts in defiance of the tropical sun.

He saw the central headquarters of the Slavers Bod, literally painted in the blood of its workers.

Dorothy Bolden, a laundry worker in Atlanta and mother of six, told why in 1968 she began organizing women doing housework, into the National Domestic workers Union.