draftsman
Americannoun
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a person employed in making mechanical drawings, as of machines, structures, etc.
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a person who draws sketches, plans, or designs.
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an artist exceptionally skilled in drawing.
Matisse was a superb draftsman.
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a person who draws up documents.
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See -man.
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He said he walked into an engineering firm and asked to be hired at the lowest possible salary as a junior draftsman.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 2, 2025
Greene worked as a draftsman, civil technologist, steelworker and rock-band crew member before starting his career in theatre in the UK in the 1970s.
From BBC ● Sep. 1, 2025
A precocious draftsman, Goff began working at a Tulsa, Okla., architecture firm at age 12 and by 22 had designed what is still one of Tulsa’s great monuments: the bursting-with-wild-detail Boston Avenue United Methodist Church.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2025
Nachume, a German-born Israeli painter who moved to New York in 1974, was a painter, colorist, draftsman and family man.
From New York Times ● Jun. 16, 2023
Hamilton would be the draftsman, but Washington must be the author.
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
"I think it is fascinating we have a list of plasterers and draftsmen," she said.
From BBC ● Feb. 21, 2025
Under me I have an art director, then draftsmen, and production coordinator and the paint department and graphic designer.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 10, 2022
She said they were afraid of being seen as mere draftsmen – and that would be too degrading.
From Scientific American ● Sep. 29, 2022
The talented Ramirez is one of the best draftsmen in editorial cartooning today, with opinions as sharp as his pen point.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 3, 2021
He liked Wight and liked the work; he liked especially one of Wight’s other draftsmen, a southerner named John Wellborn Root, who was four years younger.
From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson
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