noun
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a man who is employed in manual labour or who works an industrial machine
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a craftsman of skill as specified
a bad workman
Gender
See -man.
Other Word Forms
- subworkman noun
- underworkman noun
Etymology
Origin of workman
before 900; Middle English werkman, Old English weorcman. See work, man
Example Sentences
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Another CES customer, John Tustin, from Carmarthenshire, said he had been left with solar panels that are not connected and a costly heat pump after workmen left in mid December and never returned.
From BBC
They also smuggled in equipment and paid workmen to rehabilitate water and electricity infrastructure.
From Los Angeles Times
Conservators restoring paintings at Blenheim Palace are hoping to track down workmen or their relatives who left their names in the ceiling area decades ago.
From BBC
Penelope had to dodge piles of lumber and burly workmen holding jagged-edged saws, but it did not slow her approach.
From Literature
“It is a very inconvenient situation, to be sure. But the workmen have been trying their best, and surely that is all one can ask of them.”
From Literature
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