Word Meanings - TASKER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. One who imposes a task. 2. One who performs a task, as a day-laborer. 3. A laborer who receives his wages in kind.

WAGES
A compensation given to a hired person for services; price paid for labor; recompense; hire. See Wage, n., 2. The wages of sin is death. Rom. vi. 23. Wages fund , the aggregate capital existing at any time in any country, which theoretically is
LABORER
One who labors in a toilsome occupation; a person who does work that requires strength rather than skill, as distinguished from that of an artisan.
COLABORER
One who labors with another; an associate in labor.
UNDERLABORER
An assistant or subordinate laborer. Locke.
DAY-LABORER
One who works by the day; -- usually applied to a farm laborer, or to a workman who does not work at any particular trade. Goldsmith.