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- noun colloquial A worker for a company that supplies
gas (in the sense of the gaseous fuel), especially one who visits premises to read the meter, test appliances etc.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun someone employed by a gas company
Etymologies
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Examples
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Probably the trimming of the lamps became his next duty; and then, as time went on, he developed into a "gasman," that most indispensable attendant of the modern theatre.
A Book of the Play Studies and Illustrations of Histrionic Story, Life, and Character Dutton Cook 1856
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DjDiverDan says: gasman, above and beyond the tabloid elements, the Anna Nicole Smith/Marshall case is really only legally interesting on the issue of Bankruptcy Jurisdiction — why Anna Nicole could assert her Texas state-law tort claim (interfering with the expectancy of an inheritance) in her Bankruptcy Case.
The Volokh Conspiracy » San Francisco Program on Anna Nicole Smith Case: 2010
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May 28, 2010, 3: 21 pm whit says: gasman: What atheists would thatbe?
The Volokh Conspiracy » Latest Mohammed Cartoon Controversy, this Time in South Africa 2010
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March 10, 2010, 1:13 pm gasman says: ...said the commission would examine closely the possibility of banning outright “purely speculative” trading of theswaps...
The Volokh Conspiracy » Two Views of Credit Default Swaps 2010
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The only role for judge (and a judgement) is to determine whether the process due was met, not whether the judge felt like more jurors would be a good thing by itself.gasman(Quote)
The Volokh Conspiracy » Does a Military Court-Martial of Fewer than Six Persons Violate Due Process? 2009
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I don't usually see much of BBC Breakfast, but having the morning off to wait for the gasman, and since Valentine Warner 'What To Eat Now' was on, I decided to have a dekko this morning.
OPEN THREAD 2009
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Do you suppose he has given up on publishing the paper? gasman
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It was on a Friday morning the gasman came to call.
I'm not making a holiday Wishlist. tyrell 2007
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But when the gasman came over he was all "yep, boiler's leaking", and made it safe and turned our gas off.
I'm not making a holiday Wishlist. tyrell 2007
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If this weekend's Anglo-American summit in Crawford, Texas, is anything like the lovefest that most people expect it to be, some credit has got to go to a 49-year-old Scottish rugby player-turned-oil and gasman named Bill Gammell.
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