| Main Entry: | worker |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person who is employed |
Synonyms: |
artisan, blue collar, breadwinner, company person, craftsperson, employee, hand, help, laborer, nine-to-fiver, operative, peasant, proletarian, serf, slave, stiff, toiler, trader, tradesperson, wage earner, white collar, working person, working stiff |
Antonyms: |
unemployed |
| Main Entry: | agent |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person representing an organization or person in business |
Synonyms: |
abettor, actor, advocate, ambassador, assignee, assistant, attorney, broker, commissioner, delegate, deputy, doer, emissary, envoy, executor, factor, factotum, functionary, go-between, handler, intermediary, lawyer, mediary, middleperson, minister, mover, negotiator, officer, operative, operator, principal, proctor, promoter, proxy, representative, salesperson, servant, steward, substitute, surrogate, ten percenter, worker |
| Main Entry: | carpenter |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person who works with wood |
Synonyms: |
artisan, builder, cabinetmaker, carps, chips, craftsperson, joiner, laborer, mason, woodworker, worker |
| Main Entry: | clerk |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | assistant |
Synonyms: |
agent, amanuensis, auditor, bookkeeper, cashier, copyist, counter jumper, counterperson, employee, notary, office helper, operator, paper pusher, paper shuffler, pen pusher, pencil pusher, receptionist, recorder, registrar, salesperson, secretary, seller, shopperson, stenographer, teller, transcriber, white collar, worker |
| Notes: | clergy first meant 'learning, scholarship' and clerk had the original meaning 'man ordained to the Christian ministry' |
| Main Entry: | crew |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | group working together |
Synonyms: |
aggregation, assemblage, band, bevy, bunch, cluster, collection, company, complement, congregation, corps, covey, crowd, faction, gang, hands, herd, horde, lot, mob, organization, pack, party, posse, retinue, sailors, sect, set, squad, swarm, team, troop, troupe, workers, working party |
| Main Entry: | drudge |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | slave, very hard worker |
Synonyms: |
factotum, grind*, laborer, menial, nose to grindstone, peon*, plodder, servant, toiler, workaholic, worker, workhorse |
Antonyms: |
idler, laze |
| Main Entry: | employee |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person being paid for working for another or a corporation |
Synonyms: |
agent, apprentice, assistant, attendant, blue collar, breadwinner, clerk, cog, company person, craftsperson, desk jockey, domestic, hand, help, hired gun, hired hand, hireling, jobholder, laborer, member, operator, pink collar, plug*, representative, sales help, salesperson, servant, slave, staff member, wage-earner, white collar, worker, working stiff |
| Main Entry: | faculty |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | teachers in educational institution |
Synonyms: |
academics, advisers, body, clinic, college, corps, department, employees, institute, instructors, lecturers, literati, mentors, organization, pedagogues, personnel, professorate, professors, profs, researchers, scholars, society, staff, tutors, university, workers |
Antonyms: |
students |
| Main Entry: | gang |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | group, mob of people |
Synonyms: |
assemblage, band, bunch, circle, clan, clique, club, cluster, combo, company, coterie, crew, crowd, herd, horde, knot, lot, organization, outfit, pack, party, posse, ring, set, shift, squad, syndicate, team, tribe, troop, troupe, workers, zoo |
| Main Entry: | hand |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person who does labor |
Synonyms: |
aide, artificer, artisan, craftsperson, employee, help, helper, hired person, laborer, operative, roustabout, worker |