switchman
Americannoun
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switchmen
plural
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a person who has charge of a switch on a railroad.
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a person who assists in moving cars in a railway yard or terminal.
noun
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Origin of switchman
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Hult, who worked as a railroad company switchman for three decades after his military service, has plenty of company.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 22, 2023
His father was a switchman for the Canadian National Railway, and his mother was a nurse who encouraged his interest in acting, beginning with an appearance on a CBC radio play when he was 8.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 12, 2018
Coach Williams’s longtime man Friday, Wayne Walden, a former academic counselor, played switchman, steering basketball players to these classes.
From New York Times ● Mar. 31, 2017
Included among Iowa lawmakers are pharmacists, doctors, teachers, small-business owners, a railroad switchman and a whole crop of farmers.
From Washington Times ● Feb. 27, 2016
"That's right--the switch was C open," declared the switchman.
From Ralph of the Roundhouse by Allen Chapman
The conductors, engineers and switchmen running the trains are not part of the supply-chain problem.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 10, 2021
But what really bothers Joe is that switchmen haven't been listening to him.
From Slate ● Oct. 7, 2011
Even though I probably knew more than most switchmen.
From Slate ● Oct. 7, 2011
He made permanent his temporary order prohibiting the railway firemen, engineers and switchmen from going on strike.
From Time Magazine Archive
He had in his hand one of those little red flags that switchmen use, which he waved on either side.
From "The Great Fire" by Jim Murphy
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