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warehouseman

American  
[wair-haus-muhn] / ˈwɛərˌhaʊs mən /

noun

  • warehousemen
    plural
  1. a person who stores goods for others for pay.

  2. a person who is employed in or who manages a warehouse.


warehouseman British  
/ ˈwɛəˌhaʊsmən /

noun

  1. a person who manages, is employed in, or owns a warehouse

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Etymology

Origin of warehouseman

First recorded in 1625–35; warehouse + -man


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One was a warehouseman at the grain-drying facility; the other was the tractor driver.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 17, 2022

With the industrial age wiping out much of the handmade shoemaking industry, he abandoned the trade and worked as a laborer, warehouseman and clerk.

From New York Times ● Jan. 31, 2020

Big Soo general manager Kevin Knepper says McCormick was a warehouseman and maintenance technician who had been working for Big Soo about eight months.

From Washington Times ● Mar. 29, 2018

“I’m close enough I could hit it with a rock,” said Singerhouse, a 64-year-old retired warehouseman.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 4, 2017

Before he joined he was a warehouseman at Heals in the Tottenham Court Road.

From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan

The Teamsters, representing workers such as drivers and prop warehousemen, have declared “full solidarity” with the WGA, saying they “do not cross picket lines.”

From Los Angeles Times ● May 4, 2023

Autoworkers, mine workers, longshoremen, warehousemen and the Teamsters joined or rejoined the A.F.L.-C.I.O.

From New York Times ● Feb. 19, 2023

Although a little better than one-half of them went straight from college into journalism, the rest took first-jobs as teachers, clerks, pressagents, warehousemen, gas meter readers.

From Time Magazine Archive

Except for clerks, accountants and warehousemen, no one in the company collects a salary.

From Time Magazine Archive

The old established firm of Anthony Chuzzlewit and Son, Manchester warehousemen ... had its place of business in a very narrow street somewhere behind the Post Office....

From Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 1 A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer

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