WORKER
worker
Noun
- A person who performs labor for his living, especially manual labor.
- A nonreproductive social insect, such as ant, bee, termite or wasp.
- (rare): A female ant, bee, termite or wasp.
- 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.
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