workingman
workingman noun: a man who works in exchange for payment, especially a labourer who does manual labour.
Noun
workingman (plural workingmen)
- A man who works in exchange for payment, especially a labourer who does manual labour.
- The workingman, through the invention of many time and labor saving devices, has been freed from much drudgery and now finds his day portionable into eight hours for rest, eight hours for work and eight hours for recreation.1917, New Catholic World, volume 105, page 725
- To her it seemed indecent that a pregnant woman of her standing (Government Service) should have to board the steamer without a husband to go with her and dispute about her accommodation and whisper anxiously to the doctor and stewardess—almost as indecent as a Government Service woman's having her...1938, Xavier Herbert, chapter VIII, in Capricornia (fiction), D. Appleton & Company, page 131
Forms of workingman
| plural | workingmen |
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Origin of workingman
From working + -man.
Questions about workingman
- What does workingman mean?
- Workingman means a man who works in exchange for payment, especially a labourer who does manual labour.
- What part of speech is workingman?
- Workingman is a noun.
- What is the plural of workingman?
- The plural of workingman is workingmen.
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