A person who works at a specific occupation
English: worker
pekerjaBahasa Indonesia
worker, actor, doer, employee, functionary
Common
#1,103 of the corpus · 112.9 per million words · 482,255 occurrences
From kerja (peN-) · very common, #234
Noun
A worker who is hired to perform a job
English: employee
Someone who works with their hands, someone engaged in manual labor
English: laborer, manual laborer, labourer, jack
Bahasa: buruh
7 more noun senses
A worker who holds or is invested with an office
English: official, functionary
Bahasa: pegawai
Personnel who assist their superior in carrying out an assigned task
English: staff
Less certain link between this word and this sense.
A person who acts and gets things done
English: actor, doer, worker
Bahasa: petugas, pelaku, aktor, buruh, pelaksana
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A hired laborer on a farm or ranch
English: hired hand, hand, hired man
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A member of the working class (not necessarily employed)
English: proletarian, prole, worker
Bahasa: buruh
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In a subordinate position
English: handmaid, handmaiden, servant
Bahasa: hamba, pelayan, pembantu, abdi
Less certain link between this word and this sense.
Sterile member of a colony of social insects that forages for food and cares for the larvae
English: worker
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