workingmen
- plural of workingman.
Example Sentences
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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
Wright made a sensational impression with her speeches and her newspaper, the Free Enquirer, but her religious and sexual nonconformity won her few friends outside a small circle of radical New York workingmen.
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
