workers
WUR-kurz/ˈwɝ.kɚz/UKWUR-kuhz/ˈwɜː.kəz/
- 1Plural of worker.
Construction workers gathered at the gate to discuss the new safety rules.
The company rewarded its most dedicated workers with year-end bonuses.
Note
A regular plural that carries every meaning of the singular, not only the human one. Beyond people who labor for a living, it names the nonreproductive ants, bees, termites and wasps that keep a colony running. In programming, it names the threads that each handle one instance of a task. The possessive puts the apostrophe after the s: workers' rights, the workers' union.
workers is a form of worker
worker, noun: A person who works, especially one who does paid work for a living, traditionally manual labor. Full entry
- Forms
- workerworkers plural
- Spelling
- worker → workers: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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