workers

noun

plural of worker
1
as in laborers
a person who does very hard or dull work a champion of the rights of the farm workers who pick the nation's fruits and vegetables

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2
as in employees
one who works for another for wages or a salary a factory owner who is known for his fair and generous treatment of his workers

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Recent Examples of workers But the movement has widened to include workers demanding relief from rising living costs, making the government’s task broader than resolving a dispute over university admissions. — Thomas Adamson, Los Angeles Times, 27 Oct. 2026 Also according to the emergency service, consecutive Russian strikes on a shopping center in Kharkiv injured four people late on Saturday, including three rescue workers. — Arkansas Online, 26 Oct. 2026 Last year, Morgan Stanley predicted businesses will save nearly $1 trillion using AI to replace human workers. — Chintan Shah, Forbes.com, 26 Oct. 2026 In this way, tank tops can be assembled without human intervention between the fabric stack and finished product, though T-shirt production isn’t yet fully autonomous because workers must manually insert sleeves. — Jessica Binns, Vogue, 26 Oct. 2026 Under Anthropic's staggered lock-up schedule, workers and insiders will be able to sell an unspecified number of Class A shares as time passes after the debut. — Ashley Capoot,jordan Novet,annie Palmer,lora Kolodny,kai Nicol-Schwarz,caleigh Keating, CNBC, 26 Oct. 2026 Conflict-of-interest rules may bar some workers and their families from holding certain stocks; the Treasury has moved to ban ESG funds from accounts, but there’s no way for people to keep certain stocks out of their kids’ accounts. — Diane Brady, Fortune, 20 Oct. 2026 In declarations filed with the case, the cities said they had been forced to respond by training poll workers about voter intimidation, conducting outreach to the public and other actions. — Sharon Bernstein, Sacbee.com, 19 Oct. 2026 The unrest began as a student protest for better conditions and has expanded to include public-sector workers protesting high energy prices, the rising cost of living and social inequality. — Brittney Melton, NPR, 19 Oct. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for workers
  1. laborers
  2. employees
Noun
  • Her philanthropic activities extended far beyond her own community to include Indigenous inmates, Chinese immigrants, and white laborers, along with countless other Angelenos.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 15 Oct. 2026
  • In the previous decades, Japan had brought in many Korean, Chinese, and Taiwanese laborers, often under duress, to work in factories and mines, usually in atrocious conditions.
    — Ian Buruma, New Yorker, 12 Oct. 2026
Definition of laborers
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  • The State Department on Wednesday ordered nonemergency government employees and their families to leave Saudi Arabia amid escalating attacks by the Houthis on Saudi infrastructure.
    — Miranda Jeyaretnam, Time, 22 Oct. 2026
  • Flock employees urged the company to adopt stronger security after a 2024 breach.
    — Douglas MacMillan, Washington Post, 21 Oct. 2026
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“Workers.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/workers. Accessed 27 Oct. 2026.

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