repairman
Americannoun
noun
Gender
See -man.
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Origin of repairman
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Service stations remained scarce, but gasoline could be purchased at hardware stores, and every town had a tinkerer or two—often a bicycle repairman turned mechanic.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 21, 2026
Before the war, the 34-year-old lived with his wife and daughter and worked in Moscow as a dishwasher repairman.
From BBC ● Feb. 24, 2026
And as Tony tells her about his experience, Carrie looks over to see the shop’s repairman fixing an old grandfather clock.
From Salon ● Jun. 7, 2025
“It’s not easy,” Al-Ashqar, 48, says of his work as a money repairman in a shop in Deir al Balah.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 5, 2024
From a distance, I film my father speaking to the window repairman.
From "Love, Hate & Other Filters" by Samira Ahmed
Yau said fewer than five repairmen like him remain in Hong Kong practising this "barely profitable" umbrella trade.
From Barron's ● Dec. 27, 2025
In an echo of her father’s “hunger strike” at the Hotel Nacional, Birgit refused to let in repairmen.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 23, 2022
He mows the clinic’s lawn, puts up its flag and sometimes fixes appliances because repairmen refuse to come to an abortion clinic.
From New York Times ● Sep. 26, 2021
There, a crew of six repairmen were clearing debris from corridors and stringing up lights to prepare the area as a shelter.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 10, 2020
A line had gone down in the last snowstorm, and the repairmen were going to take advantage of the milder evenings to set it right.
From "Interpreter of Maladies" by Jhumpa Lahiri
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