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warehouseman

American  
[wair-hous-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

Mr Fletcher, who was recently made redundant from his job as a warehouseman, managed to get one of the referees he knows at the ground to capture the moment and take some photos.

From BBC May 5, 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

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

So he went after the warehousemen, who stand economically between the longshoremen and the teamsters.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

Its creation was resisted by both railroad corporations and public warehousemen, and after its organization they treated it with little consideration.

From Fifty Years of Public Service by Shelby M. Cullom

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