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worker

/ˈwɜː.kə/
noun
  1. A person who performs labor for a living, especially manual labor.

  2. A nonreproductive social insect, such as ant, bee, termite, or wasp.

  3. 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."

Synonymslaborer, labourer

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