transitman
Americannoun
PLURAL
transitmenEtymology
Origin of transitman
Example Sentences
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Hibbert was inspector and transitman in charge for the State Department.
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Howard and Ned attached themselves to the transitman, and took turns as head and rear chain, while Grant superintended the levelling, and Charlie trudged along in the rear with the young topographer, who had taken a sudden fancy to the boy, and gave him frequent lectures on the theory and practice of surveying, until his pupil longed for the time when he too could wear on his watch-chain the tiny blue shield, with its golden date and initials.
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A transitman who entered the service in 1905 at $1400 per annum was in 1913 appointed an assistant chief of a bureau at $4500 per annum.
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You remember, I once told you all about him—M. F. Griffith, my old engineer—man who boosted me from a bum to a transitman.
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