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radarman

American  
[ray-dahr-muhn, -man] / ˈreɪ dɑr mən, -ˌmæn /

noun

  • radarmen
    plural
  1. a person who operates or helps to operate radar equipment.


Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms


Etymology

Origin of radarman

First recorded in 1940–45; radar + man


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As a radarman charged with tracking the movements of enemy ships and submarines, Johnson said the ship was engaged in “a game of chicken” off the coast of China.

From Washington Times ● Oct. 2, 2016

Scott, 57, a lawyer and former Navy radarman who made his fortune acquiring hospitals in Texas, was never personally charged in the Columbia/HCA scandal.

From Time ● Jun. 18, 2010

Tony Ricotta, radarman, spotted two "ships" on the screen.

From Time Magazine Archive

In the cockpit of the F-94, a wealth of information crackles in on the headsets of the pilot and his radarman.

From Time Magazine Archive

The radarman studied the scanner, where, with each sweep of the thin white line, the blip of the ship appeared.

From On the Trail of the Space Pirates by Louis Glanzman

Maddox radarmen spotted what they reckoned to be five torpedo boats 36 miles to northeast.

From Time Magazine Archive

As radarmen called fruitlessly for a course change, the big swept-wing Douglas jet crossed into Communist East Germany in the vicinity of the central Berlin air corridor.

From Time Magazine Archive

Air Force radarmen, who had been monitoring the course of both flights.

From Time Magazine Archive

Forty-seven minutes after takeoff, radarmen at two U.S. air defense stations near the East German border noticed a fast-moving blip on their scopes.

From Time Magazine Archive

The thing was climbing so fast no one believed the radarmen at first.

From The Flying Saucers are Real by Donald E. (Donald Edward) Keyhoe

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