utility man

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noun

a worker expected to serve in any capacity when called on.

an actor of miscellaneous small parts.

Baseball. a player who is not a regular and whose value lies in an ability to play several positions.

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Origin of utility man

First recorded in 1850–55

Words nearby utility man

utilitarian, utilitarianism, utility, utility function, utility knife, utility man, utility player, utility pole, utility program, utility room, utility truck

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How to use utility man in a sentence

Josh Harrison, the club’s veteran utility man, has 214 career starts at third and could slide in.
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In the first episode, an officer is shown video of himself shooting and killing a man.
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That man was Xavier Cortada, a gay man who wrote of his frustration that he and his partner of eight years were unable to marry.
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It is the summit of human happiness: the surrender of man to God, of woman to man, of several women to the same man.
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But no more so than the Sodexo building maintenance man or the two cops who were also killed in the crossfire.
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He looks like a man who should have had kids, but now never will.
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Davy looked around and saw an old man coming toward them across the lawn.
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The supernaturalist alleges that religion was revealed to man by God, and that the form of this revelation is a sacred book.
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The most High hath created medicines out of the earth, and a wise man will not abhor them.
The Bible, Douay-Rheims Version|Various
He remembered something—the cherished pose of being a man plunged fathoms-deep in business.
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On the thirteenth of the same month they bound to the stake, in order to burn alive, a man who had two religious in his house.
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British Dictionary definitions for utility man

utility man

noun mainly US

a worker who is expected to serve in any of several capacities

an actor who plays any of numerous small parts

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