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workingman

[wur-king-man]

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noun, plural work·ing·men.

a man of the working class; a man, whether skilled or unskilled, who earns his living at some manual or industrial work.

RELATED WORDS

grunt, worker, drudge, peon, hand, hireling, operative, workman, farmhand, employee, laborer, proletarian, workingwoman, workwoman

Nearby words

Origin of workingman

First recorded in 1630–40; working + man¹

Usage note

See -man.

Dictionary.com Unabridged Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2019

Examples from the Web for workingman

We find the American workingman bound by the law, as I have said,—everything taken from him.
Industrial Conspiracies|Clarence S. Darrow
Why is this right, which is at bottom the right of property itself, denied to the workingman?
What is Property?|P. J. Proudhon
But Transome's neither Whig nor Tory; he's the workingman's friend, the collier's friend, the friend of the honest navvy.
Felix Holt, The Radical|George Eliot
A workingman enrolling in a syndicat is not entering a party, not subscribing to a platform, nor accepting a creed.
Syndicalism in France|Louis Levine

If one knocks out the tooth of a workingman, he shall pay of a mana of silver.
Archology and the Bible|George A. Barton