warehouseman
Americannoun
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a person who stores goods for others for pay.
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a person who is employed in or who manages a warehouse.
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Origin of warehouseman
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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
All told, 121 warehouses were closed, 3,000 of Harry Bridges' 8,000 warehousemen were out of work.
From Time Magazine Archive
When the members of San Francisco's Association of Distributors last month began locking out union warehousemen who refused to handle a "hot" freight car loaded in a struck Woolworth warehouse, they started something.
From Time Magazine Archive
Every now and then a “Favourite” omnibus rumbles past with its load of clerks and warehousemen to their places of business, while a perpetual stream of pedestrians, aiming at the same destination, passes on.
From Days and Nights in London or, Studies in Black and Gray by Ritchie, J. Ewing (James Ewing)
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