worker bee

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   sterile bee specialized to collect food and maintain the hive

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Questions about worker bee

What does worker bee mean?

worker bee means "sterile bee specialized to collect food and maintain the hive".

Is worker bee a common word?

worker bee is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.