benchman

[bench-muh n]

noun, plural bench·men.

a person whose job requires sitting at a workbench: The TV repair shop employs five benchmen.

Origin of benchman

First recorded in 1900–05; bench + -man

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Strobik was a benchman of Henry A. Mollenhauer, the hardest and coldest of all three of the political leaders.
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