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n. (plural of worker bee English)
Usage examples of "worker bees".
There were queen bees, like the misuse of the Service, and the search for true as distinct from wishful intelligence, and there were worker bees.
They mate with local queens, and then all the worker bees grow little poison daggers.
Sir Basil wasn't a bad chap to work for but, like most spymasters, he greatly enjoyed being clever, which was something never fully appreciated out in the field, where the worker bees had wasps to worry about.
The worker bees almost never came to the house, almost never late at night, and he wanted Daddy.
Daddy would fix the worker bees and maybe come and check on him and Tom and Benny.
Like worker bees, female laborers, each one with an entire blueprint in her mind, operated heavy equipment, preparing to lift roof modules into place.
The workforce protects the place like worker bees protect their hives.