| 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: | 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: | 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: | hand |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person who does labor |
Synonyms: |
aide, artificer, artisan, craftsperson, employee, help, helper, hired person, laborer, operative, roustabout, worker |
| Main Entry: | labor |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person(s) performing service |
Synonyms: |
apprentice, blue collar, breadwinner, employee, hack*, hand*, hard hat, help, helper, hireling, instrument, laborer, learner, operative, prentice, proletariat, rank and file, toiler, work force, worker, working people |
Antonyms: |
management, manager |
| Main Entry: | union |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | group with shared interest, cause |
Synonyms: |
alliance, association, brotherhood, club, coalition, confederacy, confederation, congress, employees, federation, guild, labor union, league, local, order, sisterhood, society, sodality, syndicate, trade union |
Antonyms: |
management |
| 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: | hireling |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | hack |
Synonyms: |
aide, employee, laborer, worker, worker |
| Main Entry: | blue-collar worker |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | manual or technical laborer |
Synonyms: |
common laborer, employee, factory worker, hand, industrial worker, laborer, lunch-bucket worker, member of the working class, nonoffice worker, proletarian, working stiff, workingman, workingwoman |
| Main Entry: | wage earner |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person earning income |
Synonyms: |
breadwinner, employee, income producer, jobholder, one who brings home the bacon, salaried worker, staff member, staffer, wage slave, wageworker |