Wiktionary
n. employee working at a physical construction.
WordNet
n. a worker skilled in building offices or dwellings etc. [syn: hard hat]
Wikipedia
__NOTOC__ A construction worker is a tradesman, labourer (by tradition considered an unskilled tradesman), or professional employed in the physical construction of the built environment and its infrastructure.
The term construction worker is a generic term and most construction workers are primarily described by the type of work they perform (their trade). Construction workers may also be colloquially be referred to as "hard hat workers" or "hard hats", as they often wear hardhats for safety.
Construction workers often work under a construction foreman.
While most construction workers learn on the job as an informal apprentice to an experienced tradesman, formal apprenticeship programs are common, particularly in developed countries with trade unions.
Usage examples of "construction worker".
The construction worker closest to them, the one holding a gun on Harriet Banks, jerked just once, then fell like a man whose legs have been abruptly jerked out from beneath him.
The construction worker closest to them, the one holding a gun on Harriet Banks, jerked just once, then fell like a man whose legs have been abruptly jerked out from .
Oh, he had muscles, and she did like that, but he was no Hi-Q professor or big-bucks executive, he was just a construction worker.
Reinhold Henkle, German construction worker from Pardubice, mother's maiden name Hungarian, which goes with the broad smooth-shaven Slavic face.
One of them showed a construction worker's yellow hard hat with a green ecology sticker on the front.
She was fifty-one years old, a round little Russian woman with gray hair, a construction worker with missing fingers.
He was a press operator at a rubber factory, then worked in a shipyard, then as a construction worker.
Crouching, he ran directly towards the building's facade and, within its dense shadows, he went along its south face, through the first-class cover of the dormant machinery - the double shifts had ceased two days ago, after they had discovered he had infiltrated the place as a construction worker.