workman
pronunciation
How to pronounce workman in British English:
UK [ˈwɜːkmən]
How to pronounce workman in American English:
US [ˈwɜːrkmən]
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- Noun:
- an employee who performs manual or industrial labor
Word Origin
- workman (n.)
- Old English weorcmsnn; see work (n.) + man (n.). Similar formation in Dutch werkman, Old Norse verkmaðr.
Example
- 1. Tiny splinters fly as the workman planes the wood smooth .
- 2. Started working as a loading workman , then began to sell various goods .
- 3. Here the archaeologists also found the remnants of a workman 's lunch and tool kit-fragments of a beer or water jar and stone hammers .
- 4. In a huge hangar in the chinese city of nanjing 170 miles inland from shanghai a workman is hacking away at a tree trunk that has been transported here from the forests of indonesia .
- 5. Yesterday , senior members of the opposition conservative party were exposed for their expenses one mp billed the taxpayer for getting a workman to change lightbulbs but the affair is damaging to all parties .