worker
gb/wˈɚkɚ/ us/wˈɚkɚ/
A2
อังกฤษ
~ 600
ความหมาย
0 ความหมาย
คำนาม
A2
entity
1
Person employed to do work
A person who has a job and does work for money.
รูปแบบการใช้:
[someone] is a worker at [a place]
ข้อผิดพลาดที่พบบ่อย:
Learners sometimes confuse 'worker' with 'workman'; 'workman' is less common and often refers specifically to manual laborers.
คำพ้องความหมาย
employee (More formal and often used in legal or business contexts to mean someone who works for an employer.)
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staff member (Refers to someone as part of a group working in an organization; slightly more collective.)
คำตรงข้าม
employer (The person or organization that hires and pays workers, opposite role.)
คำที่ใช้ร่วมกัน
factory worker
|office worker
|skilled worker
|migrant worker
|construction worker
หัวข้อ
business
|employment
|daily life
|work
|core_vocabulary
ตัวอย่าง
- The factory employs over 200 workers.
- As a construction worker, he starts his day at sunrise.
- The company is hiring more workers for the holiday season.
- Many workers are demanding better pay and conditions.
ตัวอย่างสำหรับผู้เรียน
- My sister is a worker in a shop.
- The workers make clothes in the factory.
- He is a worker at the hotel.
คำนาม
A2
entity
2
Person characterized by work style
A person described by how they do their job, like fast, careful, or lazy.
รูปแบบการใช้:
[someone] is a [adjective] worker
ข้อผิดพลาดที่พบบ่อย:
Learners may forget to use an adjective before 'worker' when describing someone's work style.
คำพ้องความหมาย
performer (In this context, refers to someone who performs tasks well, but can also mean an entertainer.)
คำตรงข้าม
slacker (Informal term for someone who avoids work or works very little.)
คำที่ใช้ร่วมกัน
hard worker
|fast worker
|good worker
หัวข้อ
employment
|daily life
|work
|core_vocabulary
ตัวอย่าง
- She is known as a hard worker who always meets deadlines.
- He's not just talented; he's also a careful worker.
- The manager praised her as a reliable worker.
ตัวอย่างสำหรับผู้เรียน
- He is a good worker.
- She is a slow worker.
- My father is a hard worker.
คำนาม
technical
B1
entity
3
Non-reproducing insect in colony
An insect like an ant or bee that cannot have young and works for the group.
ข้อผิดพลาดที่พบบ่อย:
Learners may confuse 'worker bee' with any bee; not all bees are workers.
คำพ้องความหมาย
laborer bee (Less common term referring specifically to bees that work in the hive.)
คำตรงข้าม
queen bee (The reproductive female in a bee colony, opposite role to the worker bee.)
คำที่ใช้ร่วมกัน
worker bee
|worker ant
หัวข้อ
biology
|animals
|nature
ตัวอย่าง
- Worker bees collect nectar from flowers.
- In an ant colony, the workers care for the larvae.
- The hive depends on its worker bees to survive.
ตัวอย่างสำหรับผู้เรียน
- A worker bee makes honey.
- Worker ants bring food to the nest.
- The queen bee is bigger than the worker bees.
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รูปคำในพจนานุกรม
worker
IPA
GB/wˈɚkɚ/
US/wˈɚkɚ/
พยางค์และการเน้นเสียง
work - er (2 พยางค์)
Stress on 1st syllable (work)
รูปคำ
Noun
- Base: worker
- Plural: workers
กลุ่มคำที่เกี่ยวข้อง
Forms
workers
noun
Core family
work
verb A1
working
adjective
Advanced or less common
workable
adjective
workmanship
noun B2
Negative and opposite forms
unworkable
adjective
วลีและสำนวน
hard worker
1/hˈɑɹd wˈɚkɚ/
fixed phrase
Person who works diligently
A person who works very well and tries very hard.
ตัวอย่าง
- She’s a hard worker and always finishes her projects early.
- Everyone knows he’s a hard worker who never gives up.
blue-collar worker
1/blˈu kˈɑlɚ wˈɚkɚ/
fixed phrase
person doing manual or industrial work
An employee who mainly does physical or manual work, for example in a factory or on a building site.
ตัวอย่าง
- The new law will improve conditions for blue-collar workers.
- Blue-collar workers often face higher safety risks on the job.
- He spent most of his life as a blue-collar worker in the steel industry.
- The union represents thousands of blue-collar workers in the region.
- Her father was a blue-collar worker in the steel industry.
white-collar worker
1/wˈaɪt kˈɑlɚ wˈɚkɚ/
fixed phrase
person doing office or professional work
An employee who mainly does office or professional work, not physical labor.
ตัวอย่าง
- White-collar workers often have flexible schedules.
- As a white-collar worker, she spends most of her day at a computer.
- She transitioned from being a blue-collar worker to a white-collar worker after finishing college.
- The company offers flexible hours for its white-collar workers.
- Salaries for white-collar workers have risen faster than for manual workers.