All worker synonyms
work·er
W w noun worker
- employee — A person employed for wages or salary, especially at nonexecutive level.
- hand — Learned [lur-nid] /ˈlɜr nɪd/ (Show IPA), 1872–1961, U.S. jurist.
- operative — a person engaged, employed, or skilled in some branch of work, especially productive or industrial work; worker.
- wage earner — a person who works for wages, especially a laborer.
- labourer — Standard spelling of laborer.
- laborer — a person engaged in work that requires bodily strength rather than skill or training: a laborer in the field.
- peasant — a member of a class of persons, as in Europe, Asia, and Latin America, who are small farmers or farm laborers of low social rank.
- trader — a person who trades; a merchant or businessperson.
- artisan — An artisan is someone whose job requires skill with their hands.
- breadwinner — The breadwinner in a family is the person in it who earns the money that the family needs for essential things.
- help — to give or provide what is necessary to accomplish a task or satisfy a need; contribute strength or means to; render assistance to; cooperate effectively with; aid; assist: He planned to help me with my work. Let me help you with those packages.
- proletarian — pertaining or belonging to the proletariat.
- serf — a person in a condition of servitude, required to render services to a lord, commonly attached to the lord's land and transferred with it from one owner to another.
- slave — a person who is the property of and wholly subject to another; a bond servant.
- stiff — rigid or firm; difficult or impossible to bend or flex: a stiff collar.
- toiler — hard and continuous work; exhausting labor or effort.
- blue collar — of or relating to wage-earning workers who wear work clothes or other specialized clothing on the job, as mechanics, longshoremen, and miners. Compare white-collar.
- craftsperson — an artisan
- nine-to-fiver — of, relating to, or during the workday, especially the hours from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. when offices are characteristically open for business: the nine-to-five grind.
- working stiff — A working stiff is a person who has an ordinary job that is not well-paid.