worker

worker
n.

1) to hire, take on a worker

2) to retrain; train workers

3) to organize, unionize workers

4) to dismiss, fire, sack (colloq.) a worker; to make a worker redundant (as by eliminating her/his job) (BE)

5) an efficient, hard, indefatigable; idle; meticulous worker

6) a blue-collar (esp. AE); full-time; immigrant; migrant; office; part-time; skilled; social; undocumented (AE); unemployed; unskilled; white-collar worker

* * *
['wɜːkə]
full-time
indefatigable
meticulous worker
migrant
part-time
sack (colloq.) a worker
social
take on a worker
train workers
unionize workers
white-collar worker
undocumented (AE)
to make a worker redundant (BE; as by eliminating her/his job)
an efficient
to dismiss
to hire
to organize
to retrain
a blue-collar (esp. AE)

Combinatory dictionary. 2013.

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