Definição de 'worker'
Formas da palavra:plural workers
1. substantivo contável [usually noun NOUN]
2. substantivo contável [usually plural]
Workers are people who are employed in industry or business and who are not managers.
Wages have been frozen and workers laid off.
...a call for the workers of the world to unite.
The agreement encourages worker participation in management decisions.
3. substantivo contável [usually adjective NOUN]
4. See also care worker, caseworker, dock worker, social worker, teleworker, youth worker
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substantivo
1.
2.
a person who works for a cause, organization, etc.
volunteer workers, a party worker
3.
4. Printing
an electrotype used to print from, as distinguished from one used as a mold for making duplicate electrotypes
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substantivo
3.
4.
any other member of the working class
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