SERVICE MAN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does service man mean? 

• SERVICE MAN (noun)
  The noun SERVICE MAN has 1 sense:

1. a skilled worker whose job is to repair things

  Familiarity information: SERVICE MAN used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SERVICE MAN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A skilled worker whose job is to repair things

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

maintenance man; repairman; service man

Hypernyms ("service man" is a kind of...):

fixer; mender; repairer (a skilled worker who mends or repairs things)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "service man"):

auto-mechanic; automobile mechanic; car-mechanic; grease monkey; mechanic (someone whose occupation is repairing and maintaining automobiles)

handyman; jack of all trades; odd-job man (a man skilled in various odd jobs and other small tasks)

trouble shooter; troubleshooter (a worker whose job is to locate and fix sources of trouble (especially in mechanical devices))

 Context examples 

And all the time this quiet country house of yours is the centre of half the mischief in England, and the sporting squire the most astute secret-service man in Europe.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)