Meaning & use
dedicated worker
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Meanings
nouncountable
Someone who gives a lot of time and energy to their job and cares about doing it well.
Grammar: Countable: say a dedicated worker or dedicated workers.
Patterns
- a dedicated worker for a company
- a dedicated worker who does something
The clinic is lucky to have such a dedicated worker on its night shift.
She is a dedicated worker who often stays late to finish reports.
Managers say dedicated workers are the hardest people to replace.
nouncountable
Someone who puts steady effort into a cause, hobby, or duty over a long period.
Grammar: Used with for or to before the activity or group: a dedicated worker for the charity.
Patterns
- a dedicated worker for something
- a dedicated worker in a field
For twenty years he was a dedicated worker for the local food bank.
As a dedicated worker in science education, she ran weekend classes for children.
Word forms
| plural | dedicated workers |
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Common combinations
- a hard-working and dedicated worker
- The team leader described him as a hard-working and dedicated worker.
- a dedicated worker for the company
- She has been a dedicated worker for the company since 2011.
- a loyal and dedicated worker
- He was a loyal and dedicated worker who rarely missed a day.
- hire dedicated workers
- Small firms often struggle to hire dedicated workers on low pay.
- a dedicated public servant
- Voters praised her as a dedicated public servant.
Synonyms and how they differ
- devoted
- Devoted suggests strong personal loyalty or love, so it fits family or causes better than a paid job.
- committed
- Committed stresses a firm decision to keep supporting something; it is common before a noun, as in a committed teacher.
- hard-working
- Hard-working simply says someone works a lot; it says nothing about caring, which dedicated does.
- enthusiastic
- Enthusiastic is about eager, lively feeling and can describe a single event, while dedicated suggests long-term effort.
Opposites
Word family
- dedication noun
- The quality of giving your time and effort to something.
- dedicate verb
- To give your time and effort to a task or purpose.
- dedicated adjective
- Giving a lot of time and energy to something.
Commonly confused: dedicated worker or devoted worker?
dedicated worker vs devoted worker
Devoted implies deep personal loyalty or affection, which sounds odd for an ordinary office job; dedicated is safer for work contexts.
Practice
Which sentence uses the phrase most naturally?
Choose one answer.
'A dedicated worker for + group or organization' is the natural pattern, as in 'for the animal shelter'. Option 0 wrongly follows the phrase with an infinitive, option 2 uses 'of + -ing' where English needs 'for' or 'in', and option 3 puts a bare verb after 'for'.
Make it your own
Write a sentence using “dedicated worker”, then check it and compare it with the examples above.