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• hive of worker bees — A hive of worker bees is a group of people working actively and cooperatively. Example: The classroom was a hive of worker bees …   The small dictionary of idiomes

• Worker bee — A Worker bee is any female eusocial bee that lacks the full reproductive capacity of the colony s queen bee; under most circumstances, this is correlated to an increase in certain non reproductive activities relative to a queen, as well. Worker… …   Wikipedia

• worker cell — noun : any of the smaller cells of a honeycomb in which larvae of worker bees are reared …   Useful english dictionary

• Worker — Work er, n. 1. One who, or that which, works; a laborer; a performer; as, a worker in brass. [1913 Webster] Professors of holiness, but workers of iniquity. Shak. [1913 Webster] 2. (Zo[ o]l.) One of the neuter, or sterile, individuals of the… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• worker — [wʉr′kər] n. 1. a person, animal, or thing that works; specif., a person who is employed to do physical or mental work for wages, esp. in order to earn a living, as in a trade, industry, business, office, etc. or on a farm, ranch, etc. 2. a… …   English World dictionary

• Bees — Recorded as Bea, Beaze, Bee, Bees, and Beeze, this is an English medieval surname. It has at least four possible origins. It may be a short form of the French medieval female personal name Beatrice, or more likely for most nameholders it was job… …   Surnames reference

• worker — /ˈwɜkə / (say werkuh) noun 1. someone or something that works: she s a good steady worker. 2. a lower level employee, especially as contrasted with a manager or owner of a business: *The rich man drives a bigger car than the worker and has a… …  

• worker — /werr keuhr/, n. 1. a person or thing that works. 2. a laborer or employee: steel workers. 3. a person engaged in a particular field, activity, or cause: a worker in psychological research; a worker for the Republican party. 4. Entomol. a. a… …   Universalium

• worker — noun Date: 14th century 1. a. one that works especially at manual or industrial labor or with a particular material < a factory worker > often used in combination b. a member of the working class 2. any of the sexually underdeveloped and usually… …   New Collegiate Dictionary

• worker — work•er [[t]ˈwɜr kər[/t]] n. 1) a person or thing that works 2) a laborer or employee: steel workers[/ex] 3) ent a member of a caste of sexually underdeveloped, nonreproductive bees, ants, wasps, or termites, specialized to collect food and… …   From formal English to slang

• Laying worker bee — A laying worker bee is a worker bee that lays unfertilized eggs usually in the absence of a queen bee. Only drones develop from the eggs of laying worker bees (with some exceptions, see thelytoky). A beehive cannot survive with only a laying… …   Wikipedia