workingman
Americannoun
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workingmen
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See -man.
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Origin of workingman
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Kuhn quotes the estimable Pete Hamill as observing back then that the workingman “feels trapped and, even worse, in a society that purports to be democratic, ignored.”
From New York Times ● Jul. 1, 2020
They want the moribund broadsheet to trounce the Daily Mail and become the voice of the British workingman.
From The New Yorker ● Apr. 29, 2019
Bruno Sammartino was pro wrestling’s workingman champion and longtime box-office draw.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 28, 2018
It’s what a workingman might eat standing up while his daintier compatriots nibble on nigiri at a proper sushi bar; sushi that occasionally improves in a 7-Eleven refrigerator case.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 20, 2017
At first, they didn't recognize me in my workingman clothes.
From "March Forward, Girl" by Melba Pattillo Beals
If the court kept overturning the New Deal, he reasoned, there would be “marching farmers and marching miners and marching workingmen throughout the land.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 30, 2024
These were workingmen, providers, not activists but voters, certainly.
From New York Times ● Oct. 14, 2020
While workingmen loyal to unions had long resented the Pinkertons, conflicts between industrialists and labor also alarmed lawmakers and “respectable” citizens, and they wondered whether the Pinkertons’ existence was making everything worse.
From Slate ● Feb. 1, 2019
Unable to avoid wage labor, other workingmen organized to defend what Sarah Bagley’s Lowell Female Labor Reform Association called “the great principles of justice, equality and republicanism.”
From Textbooks ● Jan. 18, 2018
Owen’s plan was to welcome everyone, even to the point of encouraging workingmen to visit in the evening, and to devote most of the museum’s space to public displays.
From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson
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