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workingman
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun workingman has 1 sense
- workingman(n = noun.person) working man, working person, workman - an employee who performs manual or industrial labor; Array has particulars: excavator, blaster, chargeman, fuller, gas fitter, guest worker, guestworker, heaver, jack, laborer, labourer, manual laborer, lacer, lather, luddite, factory worker, mill-hand, mover, bagger, boxer, packer, paster, disinfestation officer, rat-catcher, road mender, roadman, roundsman, scratcher, shearer, sponger, stamper, utility man, warehouseman, warehouser, wetter
is a kind of employee
CIDE DICTIONARY
workingman, n.
A laboring man; a man who earns his daily support by manual labor. [1913 Webster]
THESAURUS
workingman
blue-collar worker, breadwinner, casual, casual laborer, common laborer, day laborer, employee, factory worker, flunky, free lance, free-lancer, full-time worker, hand, industrial worker, jobber, jobholder, laborer, laboring man, menial, migrant, moiler, navvy, office temporary, operative, proletarian, roustabout, salaried worker, self-employed person, servant, stiff, temporary, toiler, wage earner, wage slave, wageworker, worker, workgirl, workhand, working girl, workingwoman, workman
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