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Meanings of workwoman in English

Person that undergoes industrial or manual labor for payment.

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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
Usage of workwoman in English
1
A woman can be nothing but a simple workwoman or an actress.
The Wife, and Other Stories
2
Everybody laughed, and the merriment still contributed to discountenance the workwoman.
A Mummer's Wife
3
An untidy workwoman took their order and left them standing at the door.
Four Max Carrados Detective Stories
4
She was a strong full-blooded, perfectly developed, workwoman, matured in body and mind.
The Calling of Dan Matthews
5
She, too, had the smile of good-fellowship-coinfreely passed from workwoman to workwoman.
The Woman Who Toils / Being the Experiences of Two Gentlewomen a...
6
Agricola and the workwoman, deeply moved by this mute despair, exchanged a sad look.
The Wandering Jew — Volume 04
7
Making yourself a drudge for a common workwoman of such a character as hers!
The Mayor of Casterbridge
8
And each box passes through the workwoman's hands thirteen times!
Les Misérables
9
It would be marrying hunger and thirst; he is a workman, I am a workwoman.
Poor Relations
10
The Mason who builds on the pebbles may fairly boast of being an industrious workwoman.
The Mason-Bees
11
I, the workwoman, cannot see it or feel it.
The Romance of Isabel Lady Burton: The Story of Her Life. Volume...
12
Thus, an interesting workwoman-suchas you, for example-isplaced with persons that we suppose irreproachable.
The Wandering Jew — Volume 04
13
Agricola gave to Miss de Cardoville the anonymous letter which had been received by the workwoman.
The Wandering Jew — Volume 02
14
Besides, Fantine was only a moderately good workwoman.
Les Misérables
15
Soon I asked her "if there were any dressmaker or plain-workwoman in the village?"
Jane Eyre: An Autobiography
16
Marian is my assistant's pupil, and he has made a very expert workwoman of her already.
The Irrational Knot / Being the Second Novel of His Nonage
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