switchman
Americannoun
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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.
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Example Sentences
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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
“My grandfather worked on the railroad as a switchman, and there are quite a few articles about him in the newspapers.”
From Washington Times • Mar. 14, 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
A board of lawyers will not replace one switchman.
From Dictatorship vs. Democracy (Terrorism and Communism) by Trotzky, Leon Davidovich
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