noun
an employee who performs manual or industrial labor
• Syn: ↑workman, ↑workingman, ↑working person
• Derivationally related forms: ↑workmanship (for: ↑workman)
• Hypernyms: ↑employee
• Hyponyms:
↑excavator, ↑blaster, ↑chargeman, ↑fuller, ↑gas fitter, ↑guest worker, ↑guestworker, ↑heaver, ↑laborer, ↑manual laborer, ↑labourer, ↑jack, ↑lacer, ↑lather, ↑Luddite, ↑mill-hand, ↑factory worker, ↑mover, ↑packer, ↑bagger, ↑boxer, ↑paster, ↑rat-catcher, ↑disinfestation officer, ↑roadman, ↑road mender, ↑roundsman, ↑scratcher, ↑shearer, ↑sponger, ↑stamper, ↑utility man, ↑warehouser, ↑warehouseman, ↑wetter
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working man or working woman noun
A worker, esp a manual one
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Main Entry: ↑work
Useful english dictionary. 2012.