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Employee

One employed by another.

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Narrower term 22

Barkeeper 76% connected

One who keeps or tends a bar for the sale of liquors.

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Bartender 76% connected

A barkeeper.

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Clerk 76% connected

A clergyman or ecclesiastic.

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Copyist 76% connected

A copier; a transcriber; an imitator; a plagiarist.

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Deliverer 76% connected

One who delivers or rescues; a preserver.

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Dispatcher 76% connected

One who dispatches.

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Floater 76% connected

One who floats or swims.

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Floorwalker 76% connected

One who walks about in a large retail store as an overseer and director.

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Gardener 76% connected

One who makes and tends a garden; a horticulturist.

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Hire 76% connected

See Here, pron.

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Hireling 76% connected

One who is hired, or who serves for wages; esp., one whose motive and interest in serving another are wholly gainful; a mercenary.

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Pensionary 76% connected

Maintained by a pension; receiving a pension; as, pensionary spies.

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Porter 76% connected

A man who has charge of a door or gate; a doorkeeper; one who waits at the door to receive messages.

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Potboy 76% connected

A boy who carries pots of ale, beer, etc.; a menial in a public house.

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Potman 76% connected

A pot companion.

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Registrar 76% connected

One who registers; a recorder; a keeper of records; as, a registrar of births, deaths, and marriages. See Register, n., 3.

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Scribe 76% connected

One who writes; a draughtsman; a writer for another; especially, an offical or public writer; an amanuensis or secretary; a notary; a copyist.

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Scrivener 76% connected

A professional writer; one whose occupation is to draw contracts or prepare writings.

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Shopwalker 76% connected

One who walks about in a shop as an overseer and director. Cf. Floorwalker.

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Spotter 76% connected

One who spots.

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Sweeper 76% connected

One who, or that which, sweeps, or cleans by sweeping; a sweep; as, a carpet sweeper.

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Toller 76% connected

A toll gatherer.

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Broader term 1

Worker 76% connected

One who, or that which, works; a laborer; a performer; as, a worker in brass.

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Hire 74% connected

See Here, pron.

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Hire 74% connected

See Here, pron.

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Employer 94% connected

One who employs another; as, an employer of workmen.

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Employer 94% connected

One who employs another; as, an employer of workmen.

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