WordNet
n. a workman in a mill or factory [syn: mill-hand]
Usage examples of "factory worker".
You'll be entirely alone, one factory worker in the bottom of the ship.
Fifty years ago or even twenty years ago a factory worker and a small professional man, for instance, were very different kinds of creature.
The two forces battled within the mind of factory worker Yang Quon.
Though the worker in a hole-in-the-wall bazaar factory is certainly in a different position from a big moneylender in the market, both the factory worker and the moneylender are bazaaris, because they are both involved in petty trade of a traditional, or a nearly traditional, type, centered around the bazaar and its Islamic culture.
About the factory worker who left every night carrying a heavy load of sand in a wheelbarrow.
Obviously he did not believe that Floyd Wayne Vishniak, a dumb uneducated factory worker, would ever be smart enough to understand the details.
Through Lawrence's words, you get a vivid picture of what it was like to be a miner or a factory worker around the turn of the century.
His clotted accent said he was a factory worker from a long line of factory workers.
The interpreter seemed to imply something else, more like the differences between the Russian of a kolkhoznik near the Polish border (the former Polish border Molotov thought) and that of a Moscow factory worker.