workingman
noun
a man of the working class; a man, whether skilled or unskilled, who earns his living at some manual or industrial work.
workingmen
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pluralof workingman.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
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
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
Even in good times, workingmen complained that contempt for manual labor had undermined republican equality.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 18, 2018
Like many of his peers, Sargent believed that the bodies of workingmen were deformed by their efforts, made asymmetrical and even weak.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 10, 2016
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
