Underground Railroad Underground Railway | secret aid to escaping slaves that was provided by abolitionists in the years before the American Civil War |
worker | sterile member of a colony of social insects that forages for food and cares for the larvae |
worker bee | sterile bee specialized to collect food and maintain the hive |
cable railway funicular funicular railway | a railway up the side of a mountain pulled by a moving cable and having counterbalancing ascending and descending cars |
car railcar railway car railroad car | a wheeled vehicle adapted to the rails of railroad, three cars had jumped the rails |
cog railway rack railway | railway for steep mountains, a cogwheel on the locomotive engages cogs on a center rail to provide traction |
elevated railway elevated railroad elevated el overhead railway | a railway that is powered by electricity and that runs on a track that is raised above the street level |
line railway line rail line | the road consisting of railroad track and roadbed |
locomotive engine locomotive engine railway locomotive | a wheeled vehicle consisting of a self-propelled engine that is used to draw trains along railway tracks |
railroad track railroad railway | a line of track providing a runway for wheels, he walked along the railroad track |
railway railroad railroad line railway line railway system | line that is the commercial organization responsible for operating a system of transportation for trains that pull passengers or freight |
railway junction | a junction where two or more railway lines meet or cross |
railway station railroad station railroad terminal train station train depot | terminal where trains load or unload passengers or goods |
scenic railway | small railway in an amusement park |
yard railway yard railyard | an area having a network of railway tracks and sidings for storage and maintenance of cars and engines |
Kurdistan Workers Party Kurdistan Labor Pary Partiya Karkeran Kurdistan PPK | a Marxist-Leninist terrorist group of Kurds trying to establish an independent Kurdish state in eastern Turkey |
United Mine Workers of America United Mine Workers | an industrial union of mine workers in North America |
National Socialist German Workers' Party Nazi Party | the political party founded in Germany in and brought to power by Hitler in |
Industrial Workers of the World IWW I.W.W. | a former international labor union and radical labor movement in the United States, founded in Chicago inand dedicated to the overthrow of capitalism, its membership declined after World War I |
worker | a person who works at a specific occupation, he is a good worker |
actor doer worker | a person who acts and gets things done, he's a principal actor in this affair, when you want something done get a doer, he's a miracle worker |
almoner medical social worker | an official in a British hospital who looks after the social and material needs of the patients |
brainworker brain-worker | someone whose profession involves using his head to solve problems |
civil rights leader civil rights worker civil rights activist | a leader of the political movement dedicated to securing equal opportunity for members of minority groups |
colleague co-worker fellow worker workfellow | an associate that one works with |
construction worker hard hat | a worker skilled in building offices or dwellings etc. |
farmhand fieldhand field hand farm worker | a hired hand on a farm |
garmentmaker garment-worker garment worker | a person who makes garments |
goldsmith goldworker gold-worker | an artisan who makes jewelry and other objects out of gold |
guest worker guestworker | a person with temporary permission to work in another country, a Moroccan guestworker in Canada was accused of aiding terrorists |
line worker | an employee who works on an assembly line |
mill-hand factory worker | a workman in a mill or factory |
miracle man miracle worker | a person who claims or is alleged to perform miracles |
power worker power-station worker | a worker at a power station |
proletarian prole worker | a member of the working class (not necessarily employed), workers of the world--unite! |
research worker researcher investigator | a scientist who devotes himself to doing research |
seasonal worker seasonal | a worker who finds employment only in certain seasons |
silversmith silverworker silver-worker | someone who makes or repairs articles of silver |
skilled worker trained worker skilled workman | a worker who has acquired special skills |
slave striver hard worker | someone who works as hard as a slave |
social worker caseworker welfare worker | someone employed to provide social services (especially to the disadvantaged) |
stevedore loader longshoreman docker dockhand dock worker dockworker dock-walloper lumper | a laborer who loads and unloads vessels in a port |
temp temporary temporary worker | a worker (especially in an office) hired on a temporary basis |
trainman railroader railroad man railwayman railway man | an employee of a railroad |
volunteer unpaid worker | a person who performs voluntary work |