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workman
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun workman has 1 sense
- workman(n = noun.person) working man, working person, workingman - 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
Derived form noun workmanship1
CIDE DICTIONARY
workman, n. [AS. weorcmann.].
- A man employed in labor, whether in tillage or manufactures; a worker. [1913 Webster]
- Hence, especially, a skillful artificer or laborer. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
workman, n. (pl. -men)
1 a man employed to do manual labour.
2 a person considered with regard to skill in a job (a good workman).
1 a man employed to do manual labour.
2 a person considered with regard to skill in a job (a good workman).
THESAURUS
workman
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, workingman, workingwomanROGET THESAURUS
workman
Agent
N doer, actor, agent, performer, perpetrator, operator, executor, executrix, practitioner, worker, stager, bee, ant, working bee, termite, white ant, laboring oar, servant of all work, factotum, workman, artisan, craftsman, handicraftsman, mechanic, operative, working man, laboring man, demiurgus, hewers of wood and drawers of water, laborer, navvy, hand, man, day laborer, journeyman, charwoman, hack, mere tool, beast of burden, drudge, fag, lumper, roustabout, maker, artificer, artist, wright, manufacturer, architect, builder, mason, bricklayer, smith, forger, Vulcan, carpenter, ganger, platelayer, blacksmith, locksmith, sailmaker, wheelwright, machinist, mechanician, engineer, sempstress, semstress, seamstress, needlewoman, workwoman, tailor, cordwainer, minister, servant, representative, coworker, party to, participator in, particeps criminis, dramatis personae, personnel, quorum pars magna fui, faber est quisque fortunae suae.
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