Laborer vs. Worker

Laborernoun

(American spelling) One who uses body strength instead of intellectual power to earn a wage, usually hourly.

Laborernoun

One who labors in a toilsome occupation; a person who does work that requires strength rather than skill, as distinguished from that of an artisan.

Laborernoun

someone who works with their hands; someone engaged in manual labor

Laborer

A laborer is a person who works in manual labor types, especially in the construction and factory industries' workforce. Laborers are in a class of wage-earners in which their only possession of significant material value is their labor, this is the proletariat.

Workernoun

A person who performs labor for a living, especially manual labor.

Workernoun

A nonreproductive social insect, such as ant, bee, termite, or wasp.

Workernoun

(rare) A female ant, bee, termite or wasp.

Workernoun

(computing) A thread performing one instance of a particular task within a program.

Workernoun

One who, or that which, works; a laborer; a performer; as, a worker in brass.

Workernoun

One of the neuter, or sterile, individuals of the social ants, bees, and white ants. The workers are generally females having the sexual organs imperfectly developed. See Ant, and White ant, under White.

Workernoun

a person who works at a specific occupation;

Workernoun

a member of the working class (not necessarily employed);

Workernoun

sterile member of a colony of social insects that forages for food and cares for the larvae

Workernoun

a person who acts and gets things done;