tenderman
tenderman noun: a person who works on a tender.
Noun
tenderman (plural tendermen)
- A person who works on a tender.
- How much do you think a tenderman should be paid per day? If a roe fisherman can make $20,000 on one day should the tenderman be paid at a rate per ton handled rather than so much per day?1979, Western Fisheries - Volume 98, page 7
- Fishers would not have realized any gains in 1964 if shoreworkers and tendermen had not voted to cancel their newly negotiated agreements in order to support the demands of the net fleet.1996, Alicja Muszynski, Cheap Wage Labour: Race and Gender in the Fisheries of British Columbia, →ISBN
Forms of tenderman
| plural | tendermen |
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Origin of tenderman
From tender + man.
Questions about tenderman
- What does tenderman mean?
- Tenderman means a person who works on a tender.
- What part of speech is tenderman?
- Tenderman is a noun.
- What is the plural of tenderman?
- The plural of tenderman is tendermen.
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