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# worker

«worker» in Mova's school dictionary: **a person who does a job, often to make or build something** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (worker, workers)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A worker is a person who does a job, often to make or build something. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/worker/#m1)

2) A worker is someone who works in a certain way: «a hard worker», «a fast worker». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/worker/#m2)

3) Worker bees and worker ants are those that do the jobs of the hive or nest. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/worker/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In school maths: people doing work at a rate; more workers finish faster (inverse relation); wages per worker. In science: worker bees collect nectar; ant colonies. In everyday life: farm workers, health workers, factory workers. Phrases: «a hard worker», «aid worker», «office worker», «worker bee».

### examples

- 4 workers build a wall in 6 days. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/worker/#x1)
- Each worker earns 50 dollars a day. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/worker/#x2)
- 3 workers paint 12 rooms. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/worker/#x3)
- How many workers are needed? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/worker/#x4)
- Worker bees collect nectar from flowers. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/worker/#x5)
- She is a hard worker in class. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/worker/#x6)
- Road workers fixed the hole in the street. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/worker/#x7)
- Health workers helped many people get better. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/worker/#x8)
- No one will ever make a worker out of me.” [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/worker/#x9)

### note

Countable: «a worker». Maths: work = workers × rate × time. Trap: more workers means less time, not more (an inverse relation): if 4 workers need 6 days, 8 workers need 3 days.

### In the corpora

- [Shops, hospitals, buses and factories need people at all hours, so their workers follow a rota that can change every week.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/2-shifts-nights-and-other-ways-of-working/1/)
- [Night shifts mean working through the night and sleeping in the day; nurses, drivers, bakers and warehouse workers often do them.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/2-shifts-nights-and-other-ways-of-working/6/)
- [There are also ways workers stand up for themselves: unions, strikes, picket lines and tribunals.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/4-when-work-goes-wrong/4/)
- [One worker alone has little power, but many together are much harder to ignore.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/4-when-work-goes-wrong/11/)
- [A picket line is striking workers standing outside their workplace with signs, peacefully asking others not to go in.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/4-when-work-goes-wrong/14/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «worker» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/worker/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.