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Meanings of workingman in English

Portuguese
trabalhador
Catalan
contractat
Spanish
obrero

An employee who performs manual or industrial labor.

trabalhador
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Examples for "workman"
Examples for "workman"
1
He is the benefactor of the workman; a blessing to the people.
Essays on Political Economy
2
The thing done, the master workman in Ford snatched at the helm.
Empire Builders
3
The rest of the workman is the daily repairing of the machine.
The Conquest of Bread
4
The rich man lives in plenty, while the workman weeps in famine.
System of Economical Contradictions; Or, The Philosophy of Miser...
5
He was dressed in a workman's jumpsuit and carried a tool case.
Silent screams
1
He is only a working man who wants to support his family.
The Irish Times
2
He was building in the leisurely style of the British working man.
A Wanderer in Holland
3
The one thought was to leave the ranks of the working man.
As We Are and As We May Be
4
Not a bad feeling, I thought, for a working man to hold.
A killing night
5
The working man told me about it, and added some dreadful details.
The terror
1
I suppose I am on the whole a sort of commercial working person.
The Shuttle
2
You're going to make this guy your champion if you're a working person?
The Guardian
3
I'm really a working person, you know, not a playing one.
The Palace of Darkened Windows
4
Every working person on low or middle incomes will benefit.
Reuters
5
She has become resigned to me as a ' working person.'
The Second Generation
Usage of workingman in English
1
He obviously is a workingman, you know, by the way he dresses.
Secret weapon spouse
2
The position of the workingman profited by the new condition of things.
The Malady of the Century
3
The man was dressed in the blue overall suit of a workingman.
The Hohenzollerns in America / With the Bolsheviks in Berlin and...
4
Before the fire a workingman sits in a blue shirt and overalls.
The Woman Who Toils / Being the Experiences of Two Gentlewomen a...
5
The hitherto pleasant face of the workingman altered to an ugly frown.
City of Endless Night
6
These two things are science and the people, science and the workingman.
The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, V...
7
A workingman's lunchbox, although what he claimed to be was a minister.
The Bazaar of Bad Dreams
8
The term workingman can never be anything but a grammatical common denominator.
Youth and Egolatry
9
I have no more of this world's goods than the humblest workingman.
The Letters of Franklin K. Lane, Personal and Political
10
Pretty soon a man came by, a workingman-andthey let him go.
The Jungle
11
Then, sir, the white workingman's sovereignty would begin to cease to be.
History of the Thirty-Ninth Congress of the United States
12
Far better is the case of the workingman attracted by the socialist ideal.
Socialism: Positive and Negative
13
The workingman of to-day lives better than the kings of the Middle Ages.
The Root of Evil
14
The condition of the workingman, even in America, is bad enough.
The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Volume VIII. / Interviews
15
The masters want the workingman who burns and kills and riots.
The Conflict
16
That was the slight difference that was left between the workingman and him.
The Iron Heel
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Translations for workingman
Spanish
obrero
Workingman through the time
Workingman across language varieties
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