WORKINGMAN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does workingman mean? 

• WORKINGMAN (noun)
  The noun WORKINGMAN has 1 sense:

1. an employee who performs manual or industrial labor

  Familiarity information: WORKINGMAN used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• WORKINGMAN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An employee who performs manual or industrial labor

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

working man; working person; workingman; workman

Hypernyms ("workingman" is a kind of...):

employee (a worker who is hired to perform a job)

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

bagger; boxer; packer (a workman employed to pack things into containers)

wetter (a workman who wets the work in a manufacturing process)

warehouseman; warehouser (a workman who manages or works in a warehouse)

utility man (a workman expected to serve in any capacity when called on)

stamper (a workman whose job is to form or cut out by applying a mold or die (either by hand or by operating a stamping machine))

sponger (a workman employed to collect sponges)

shearer (a workman who uses shears to cut leather or metal or textiles)

scratcher (a workman who uses a tool for scratching)

roundsman (a workman employed to make rounds (to deliver goods or make inspections or so on))

road mender; roadman (a workman who is employed to repair roads)

disinfestation officer; rat-catcher (a workman employed to destroy or drive away vermin)

paster (a workman who pastes)

excavator (a workman who excavates for foundations of buildings or for quarrying)

mover (workman employed by a moving company)

factory worker; mill-hand (a workman in a mill or factory)

Luddite (one of the 19th century English workmen who destroyed laborsaving machinery that they thought would cause unemployment)

lather (a workman who puts up laths)

lacer (a workman who laces shoes or footballs or books (during binding))

jack; laborer; labourer; manual laborer (someone who works with their hands; someone engaged in manual labor)

heaver (a workman who heaves freight or bulk goods (especially at a dockyard))

guest worker; guestworker (a person with temporary permission to work in another country)

gas fitter (a workman who installs and repairs gas fixtures and appliances)

fuller (a workman who fulls (cleans and thickens) freshly woven cloth for a living)

blaster; chargeman (a workman employed to blast with explosives)

 Context examples 

I heard it first in the City Hall Park, on the lips of a workingman who ought to have known better.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

In the disguise of a workingman he had sat in the cabaret waiting for my appearance.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The visitor of the night before was not a gentleman, neither was he a workingman.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I can tell at a glance the trades of many workingmen I meet on the street.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

He was, after all, a mere workingman, a member of her own class and caste.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

"Any kind of work, no trade," he told the agent; and was interrupted by a new-comer, dressed rather foppishly, as some workingmen dress who have instincts for finer things.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

"Make it up with him," he advised Lizzie, at parting, as they stood in front of the workingman's shack in which she lived, near Sixth and Market.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

One was a tramp, another was a labor agitator, a third was a law-school student, and the remainder was composed of wordy workingmen.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Once, on the dancing-floor, he saw Lizzie Connolly go by in the arms of a young workingman; and, later, when he made the round of the pavilion, he came upon her sitting by a refreshment table.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)