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Usage patterns 労ろう 働どう 者しゃ を 雇やと う to hire workers
That factory employs a lot of workers.
労ろう 働どう 者しゃ の 権けん 利り workers' rights
There are laws to protect workers' rights.
労ろう 働どう 者しゃ が 不ふ 足そく する there is a shortage of workers
There is a shortage of workers in this industry.
労ろう 働どう 者しゃ を 保ほ 護ご する to protect workers
The government is pursuing policies to protect low-wage workers.
Kanji 労 labor, thank for, reward for Related words· 10 勤労者 is a formal, often statistical term emphasizing diligent work, while 労働者 is the neutral, everyday word for a worker.
従業員 specifically means an employee of a particular company, whereas 労働者 is broader and can include self-employed or informal workers.
作業員 refers to a worker doing a specific manual task (e.g. at a construction site), a narrower use than the general term 労働者.
労働者 is a broad term for any worker or laborer, while 工員 specifically refers to someone who works in a factory.
Show 6 more 労働者 is the general, neutral word for 'worker,' while プロレタリア is a specifically Marxist term for a member of the working class.
労働者 is a broader, more formal term for a worker often used in legal or labor-rights contexts, while ワーカー is a lighter katakana word common in modern or service-industry contexts.
労働者 is the general word for 'worker' or 'laborer', while 工 is a suffix attached to a noun to name a specific type of manual or industrial worker (e.g. 電工, 木工).
労働者 is a neutral, formal term for a worker in general, while 土方 specifically denotes a manual construction laborer and can sound rough or derogatory.
労働者 is a formal, legal/economic term for a laborer, while 働き手 emphasizes a person's role as a working, contributing member of a household or team.
労働者 refers to an individual worker, whereas 労働力 refers to the collective labor force or capacity to work as an economic resource.
Opposites 雇用主 is the employer who hires people, the direct opposite role to 労働者, the worker who is hired.
資本家 owns and controls capital, while 労働者 sells their labor to that capital, making the two the classic opposing classes in economic theory.
労働者 (worker/employee) is the opposite party to 使用者 (employer) in labor-law contexts.
Word family· 30 Show 5 more female worker; female employee; working woman
seasonal worker; seasonal laborer
factory worker
construction worker
regular worker; permanent employee
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Etymology Compound of 労働 (ろうどう, 'labor') + 者 (しゃ, 'person'). The kanji 労 means 'toil', 働 means 'work', and 者 is a common suffix for 'person'.
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