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workwoman

[wurk-woo m-uh n]

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noun, plural work·wom·en.

a female worker.

a woman employed or skilled in some manual, mechanical, or industrial work.

Origin of workwoman

First recorded in 1520–30; work + woman

Usage note

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

Related Words for workwoman

grunt, worker, drudge, peon, hand, hireling, operative, workingman, workman, farmhand, workingwoman

Examples from the Web for workwoman

Historical Examples of workwoman

But she was kept on all the same, for no other workwoman could iron a shirt with her style.
L'Assommoir
Emile Zola
The London workwoman buys a pound for one penny, or at the most twopence.
Prisoners of Poverty Abroad
Helen Campbell
A workwoman, friends, she, no less than a princess; and princess most in being so.
Saint Ursula
John Ruskin
The "treachery" is all the greater if the objector is a workman or a workwoman.
With the "Die-Hards" in Siberia
John Ward
And each box passes through the workwoman's hands thirteen times!
Les Misrables
Victor Hugo