worker

About 25.59 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun One who works: a person who performs labor for a living; traditionally, especially, manual labor.
2. noun A nonreproductive social insect, such as ant, bee, termite, or wasp. A female ant, bee, termite or wasp.
3. noun A female ant, bee, termite or wasp.
4. noun A thread performing one instance of a particular task within a program.

   This FTP client spawns a separate worker for each file to be uploaded.

Similar words

doer proletarian prole actor labourer laborer journeyman workman staffer clerk

Often followed by

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Word family

workers