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Worker vs Tailor - What's the difference?

worker | tailor |

As nouns the difference between worker and tailor

is that worker is a person who performs labor for his living, especially manual labor while tailor is a person who makes, repairs, or alters clothes professionally, especially suits and men's clothing.

As a verb tailor is

to make, repair, or alter clothes.

worker

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A person who performs labor for his living, especially manual labor.
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  • A nonreproductive social insect, such as ant, bee, termite or wasp.
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  • (label) A thread performing one instance of a particular task within a program.

    • Synonyms

    * (person who performs labor) laborer, labourer

    Derived terms

    * freezing worker * sex worker * steelworker

    Anagrams

    * English agent nouns

    tailor

    English

    (wikipedia tailor)

    Alternative forms

    * tailour (obsolete)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A person who makes, repairs, or alters clothes professionally, especially suits and men's clothing.
  • (Australia) The fish .

    • Derived terms

    * tailorbird * tailoress * tailor-fashion * tailor-made * tailor's chalk * tailor's dummy

    Synonyms

    * (fish ) bluefish

    Related terms

    * dressmaker * seamster

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To make, repair, or alter clothes.
  • To make or adapt (something) for a specific need.
  • To restrict (something) in order to meet a particular need
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    References

    * Australian Fish and How to Catch Them , Richard Allan, Landsdowne Publishing, 1990, ISBN 1-86302-674-6.