a person who works in a factory or in a semi-skilled job, especially people in the working-class; a person who works in the way mentioned or at the job mentioned
person who is employed
Cases of word usage
1) advice on personal matters given by a trained person such as a social worker (counselling)
2) a worker who fits glass into windows etc (glazier)
3) a skilled worker who makes the inside woodwork of buildings etc (joiner)
4) all the equipment (especially clothing) of a soldier, sportsman or traveller; the tools needed by a worker (kit)
5) a worker who builds or works with stone (mason)
6) a man; one of a pair of birds or animals; a ship's officer (not an engineer) below the rank of captain; a worker who helps another; (to cause birds or animals) to unite for the purpose of producing young (mate)
7) a worker who, in order to win favour, obeys orders too readily (minion)
8) (of gender) neither feminine nor masculine; (of insects, e.g. worker ants) sexually undeveloped; an animal after its sexual organs have been removed; castrate (neuter)
9) a worker or group of workers at the gates of a factory etc during a strike, to try to persuade others not to go to work (picket)
10) a worker who fits and repairs water pipes (plumber)