cameraman

[ kam-er-uh-man, -muhn, kam-ruh- ]

/ ˈkæm ər əˌmæn, -mən, ˈkæm rə- /

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noun, plural cam·er·a·men

[kam-er-uh-men, -muhn, kam-ruh-]. /ˈkæm ər əˌmɛn, -mən, ˈkæm rə-/.

a person who operates a camera, especially a movie or television camera.

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Origin of cameraman

First recorded in 1900–05; camera¹ + man

usage note for cameraman

See -man.

Words nearby cameraman

camera, cameral, cameralist, cameralistic, camera lucida, cameraman, camera obscura, cameraperson, camera phone, camera-ready, camera-ready copy

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How to use cameraman in a sentence

I used to cover conventions as a producer and cameraman and that meant conducting lots of interviews from crowded show floors.
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More than three hundred reporters, photographers, cameramen, and soundmen were clustered close by.
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Separately in recent days, a man from Illinois was charged with assaulting a cameraman, and a Pennsylvania woman was accused of encouraging and broadcasting an attack on a photographer working for the New York Times.
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Clifford’s success at local television stations in Cleveland landed him a gig as a freelance video cameraman and later a producer for the Chicago and Washington bureaus of CBS News.
Clifford Feldman, longtime cameraman and producer for major TV networks, dies of covid-19|Emily Davies|May 14, 2021|Washington Post

They also clapped back at the cameraman for crossing the six foot barrier.
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The cameraman was reporting on the factory catching fire when the inevitable happened.
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Thankfully, someone was there to capture this “jit going ham,” as the cameraman put it.
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The cameraman, Anton, had spent the night in a single cell without any chance to let his station know where he was.
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When he had us all ready, he used to turn his back to the shot and let the cameraman tell him when it was done.
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So I became top documentary cameraman by the mid to late 1980s, and it was around that time that Robert Altman came to town.
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Nagpús na bayà siya nga wà pa ang mangungúdak, My, you are posing even if there is no cameraman around.
A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan|John U. Wolff
The cameraman who had been grinding away steadily had deserted the bus and was dragging his camera with him.
Janet Hardy in Radio City|Ruthe S. Wheeler
The cameraman who had ground away steadily through the thick of the raging flames crept over to his machine.
Janet Hardy in Radio City|Ruthe S. Wheeler
As he comes out from behind the sign that obstructs the cameraman from the President.
Warren Commission (5 of 26): Hearings Vol. V (of 15)|The President's Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy
The cameraman was still untouched by the successive waves of fear and joyfulness.
Greener Than You Think|Ward Moore

British Dictionary definitions for cameraman

cameraman

/ (ˈkæmərəˌmæn, ˈkæmrə-) /

noun plural -men

a person who operates a film or television camera

usage for cameraman

Gender-neutral form: camera operator

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