WORKING MAN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does working man mean? 

• WORKING MAN (noun)
  The noun WORKING MAN has 1 sense:

1. an employee who performs manual or industrial labor

  Familiarity information: WORKING MAN used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• WORKING MAN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An employee who performs manual or industrial labor

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

working man; working person; workingman; workman

Hypernyms ("working man" is a kind of...):

employee (a worker who is hired to perform a job)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "working man"):

bagger; boxer; packer (a workman employed to pack things into containers)

wetter (a workman who wets the work in a manufacturing process)

warehouseman; warehouser (a workman who manages or works in a warehouse)

utility man (a workman expected to serve in any capacity when called on)

stamper (a workman whose job is to form or cut out by applying a mold or die (either by hand or by operating a stamping machine))

sponger (a workman employed to collect sponges)

shearer (a workman who uses shears to cut leather or metal or textiles)

scratcher (a workman who uses a tool for scratching)

roundsman (a workman employed to make rounds (to deliver goods or make inspections or so on))

road mender; roadman (a workman who is employed to repair roads)

disinfestation officer; rat-catcher (a workman employed to destroy or drive away vermin)

paster (a workman who pastes)

excavator (a workman who excavates for foundations of buildings or for quarrying)

mover (workman employed by a moving company)

factory worker; mill-hand (a workman in a mill or factory)

Luddite (one of the 19th century English workmen who destroyed laborsaving machinery that they thought would cause unemployment)

lather (a workman who puts up laths)

lacer (a workman who laces shoes or footballs or books (during binding))

jack; laborer; labourer; manual laborer (someone who works with their hands; someone engaged in manual labor)

heaver (a workman who heaves freight or bulk goods (especially at a dockyard))

guest worker; guestworker (a person with temporary permission to work in another country)

gas fitter (a workman who installs and repairs gas fixtures and appliances)

fuller (a workman who fulls (cleans and thickens) freshly woven cloth for a living)

blaster; chargeman (a workman employed to blast with explosives)

 Context examples 

Out of it, in leisurely fashion, got Lord Godalming and Morris; and down from the box descended a thick-set working man with his rush-woven basket of tools.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

To Mr. Higginbotham such a dinner was advertisement of his worldly achievement and prosperity, and he honored it by delivering platitudinous sermonettes upon American institutions and the opportunity said institutions gave to any hard-working man to rise—the rise, in his case, which he pointed out unfailingly, being from a grocer's clerk to the ownership of Higginbotham's Cash Store.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)