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machinist

[ muh-shee-nist ]

noun

  1. a person who operates machinery, especially a skilled operator of machine tools.
  2. a person who makes or repairs machines.
  3. U.S. Navy. a warrant officer whose duty is to assist the engineering officer in the engine room.


machinist

/ məˈʃiːnɪst /

noun

  1. a person who operates machines to cut or process materials
  2. a maker or repairer of machines
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of machinist1

First recorded in 1700–10; machine + -ist
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Example Sentences

Kidron Peterson, a machinist running in the race, said in a candidate forum in May, “From my own research, I do not believe it was a fair election.”

Using his machinist background, he tweaked the chair to fit.

She’s now a full-fledged machinist working full-time in the high-volume Swiss machining department.

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An elderly machinist finds himself unexpectedly wrapped up in the scandal.

Coburn, the more outgoing of the two, is the face of DAP but by trade is a machinist from Nevada.

At seventeen he was transferred to the roundhouse; at nineteen he apprenticed himself to the machinist trade.

The eight-hour movement drew its inspiration from an economic theory advanced by a self-taught Boston machinist, Ira Steward.

The machinist easily occupies a leading place in the multitude of trades and occupations.

The hack saw is one of the most difficult tools for the machinist to handle, for the following reasons:p.

The machinist can utilize this property by understanding that velocity enables a soft materialp.

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