ワーカーwaakaa

1. nounworker

• Synonym労働者ろうどうしゃNeutralThe standard term for someone who supplies labor for wages, common in labor and social topics. 「ワーカー」 is rarely used alone, mostly in compounds like 「ケースワーカー」.
• Synonym勤労者きんろうしゃWrittenA written term for people who live on earnings from work, used in administration and statistics, as in 「勤労者世帯」; more formal prose than 「労働者」.
• Synonym働き手はたらきてNeutralA person who does the work; can mean the family breadwinner or the workforce a firm or society needs, as in 「働き手不足」; also a capable person.
• Related労務者ろうむしゃWrittenA written term for people who earn wages by manual labor, seen in construction, port work and related administrative language; everyday speech prefers 「労働者」.
• Related就業者しゅうぎょうしゃWrittenA statistical term for people who are employed, including those on leave from a job; it focuses on employment status, 「ワーカー」 on the person doing the work.
• Antonym経営者けいえいしゃNeutralSomeone who runs a company or other organization; in the employment relationship it stands opposite to the 「ワーカー」 working as an employee.
• Antonym雇用主こようぬしNeutralThe party that hires workers and pays their wages; it stands opposite to 「ワーカー」 in the employing-and-employed relationship.

For a worker in general say 「労働者」; 「ワーカー」 mostly appears in compounds like 「ケースワーカー」. 「勤労者」 and 「就業者」 are administrative/statistical terms, 「働き手」 covers breadwinners and labor shortages, 「労務者」 means manual laborers, and 「経営者」/「雇用主」 the opposite side.

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1. 労働者ろうどうしゃ、職人しょくにん。