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worker

/wur-ker/US // ˈwɜr kər //UK // (ˈwɜːkə) //

工人,工作者,劳动者,工友

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a person or thing that works.
    • : a laborer or employee: steel workers.
    • : a person engaged in a particular field, activity, or cause: a worker in psychological research; a worker for the Republican Party.
    • : Entomology. a member of a caste of sexually underdeveloped, nonreproductive bees, specialized to collect food and maintain the hive.a similar member of a specialized caste of ants, termites, or wasps.
    • : Printing. one of a set of electrotyped plates used to print from.
    • : any of several rollers covered with card clothing that work in combination with the stripper rollers and the cylinder in the carding of fibers.

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Examples

  • The US and the UK have taken different approaches to helping workers through the Covid-19 pandemic.

  • From Washington to Berlin, officials are scrambling to find the best ways to help workers.

  • The pandemic has made Britain’s economy even more British, as workers born in the EU walk away.

  • That means there are generally enough workers for three to four queens to each lead off a swarm of workers and create new colonies.

  • Unsurprisingly, workers at TransDigm’s companies often feel expendable.

  • Farrell issued a ticket to an 18-year-old shipyard worker for speeding and an improper exhaust mechanism, according to the TP.

  • He expected European capitalism to evolve spontaneously into a market socialism of worker-owned cooperatives.

  • She is incapable of responding to kindness and enquiry, even very gentle flirting on the part of a co-worker.

  • Wolf concurs that the conceit of the show seems to have everyone but the sex worker in mind.

  • “We thought it must be the children playing some game,” a worker at the school told Reuters.

  • Each seems satisfied with the way his own branch is getting on: Winter is the quicker worker.

  • Not more than one adult worker in ten—so at least it might with confidence be estimated—is employed on necessary things.

  • As he was a great worker all his life, “Busy,” or “ Benjamin Ceased” would significantly express his death-date.

  • A strenuous worker, Mr. Johnstone, like most men who have no hobby, did not long survive his retirement from active business life.

  • No true worker, be he digger, or divine, blends real work with either smoking or drinking.