Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A man who works for wages.
- noun A man who performs heavy manual or industrial labor.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A laboring man; one who earns his living by manual labor.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A laboring man; a man who earns his daily support by manual labor.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
man whoworks in exchange forpayment , especially one that does manual labour
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun an employee who performs manual or industrial labor
- noun an employee who performs manual or industrial labor
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Examples
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The term workingman can never be anything but a grammatical common denominator.
Youth and Egolatry P��o Baroja 1914
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The difference between the rich and the workingman is a trivial distinction?
Who Bears the Tax Burden?, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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Nevertheless, on our last trip over I had this crazy idea I'd visit some London gun shops and find a great deal on a plain workingman's English double.
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I am well aware that the majority was a small one, but the vote marks the end of a long struggle, and disproves the contention that the English workingman is by nature an individualist.
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What we call the workingman, the day laborer, the mechanic, the mill hand, had no existence as classes.
A School History of the United States John Bach McMaster 1892
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Then, someone will fasten upon their liking for sports, and he will tell you about the racecourses and cricket grounds until you would imagine that the Australian ran races and played cricket for six days in the week, and looked a little bit after the sheep on the seventh; and then you will have others who will fasten upon the industrial question and tell you of a condition of affairs where the workingman is uppermost and rules, then you will have others who will tell you of the wonderful resources of Australia.
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They're bad enough here and this is called the workingman's paradise.
The Workingman's Paradise An Australian Labour Novel John Maurice Miller
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Most of his architectural work he entrusted to an enthusiastic builder whom he had known as a workingman at Beverley.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss 1840-1916 1913
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Nor can they be made to comprehend that the workingman is the uncrowned king of the industrial realm, and educated labor enthroned vitality; or that only freemen -- free to do or forbear -- work with genuine fidelity, and give to toil their highest endeavor.
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COAL MONOPOLIST: I have a statistician who can prove -- he can prove anything -- that the workingman is a great deal better off than he ever was, that he makes more than I do, that small incomes are increasing and large ones decreasing, that there is no involuntary poverty, and that the workingmen could live on twenty-five cents each a day and buy up the United States with their savings, and --
White Slaves; or, the Oppression of the Worthy Poor Louis Albert Banks 1894
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