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| callback |
a request to a worker to return to work, esp. after a layoff or after normal working hours. [1/3 definitions] |
| campesino |
(Spanish) a farm worker or peasant. |
| caregiver |
a medical worker who provides care and assistance to an ill, disabled, or elderly person. [1/2 definitions] |
| caseload |
the number of cases assigned, as to a social worker or parole officer, or handled, as by a court or welfare agency, at one time or during a specified period. |
| casual |
a temporary or occasional worker. [1/6 definitions] |
| colony collapse disorder |
an event in which all or most of the worker bees of a hive disappear, leaving in the hive the queen, the immature bees, and some adult bees to care for the immature bees, and the honey. |
| coolie |
a low-paid, unskilled worker, esp. in or from China or India (used as a term of disrespect). |
| coworker |
one of two or more persons who work together; fellow worker. |
| dairymaid |
a female worker on a dairy farm, esp. one who milks the cows; milkmaid. |
| day laborer |
a worker, esp. an unskilled one, who is paid by the day. |
| fellah |
a native peasant or farm worker in Arab countries. |
| hand |
a worker or laborer. [1/17 definitions] |
| hard-hat |
(informal) a construction worker. |
| hobo |
an unskilled migrant worker. [1/2 definitions] |
| honey pot |
any of certain worker ants whose bodies store a honeylike food that will be used by the entire colony. [1/3 definitions] |
| journeyman |
a worker who has completed an apprenticeship, as in a craft. [1/2 definitions] |
| longshoreman |
a man whose job is to load and unload ships; dock worker. |
| mechanic |
a worker skilled in the production, use, and esp. repair of tools, machinery, and motors. |
| migrant |
a person who travels from place to place to find employment, esp. a farm worker. [1/3 definitions] |
| nonworker |
combined form of worker. |
| nurse |
in an insect colony, a worker that looks after the young. [1/11 definitions] |
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