factory worker

1. 1.

   a workman in a mill or factory

   Synonymsmill-hand

   Broaderworkman

   Narrowermill-girl

Questions about factory worker

What does factory worker mean?

factory worker means "a workman in a mill or factory".

What is another word for factory worker?

Close synonyms include mill-hand. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is factory worker a common word?

factory worker is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.