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ˈworking-ˈman
a. A man of the working classes; a man employed to work for a wage, esp. in a manual or industrial occupation: a term inclusive of ‘artisan’, ‘mechanic’, and ‘labourer’.
1816T. Williams Means Improv. Condit. Poor 23 How much more pleasant is the occupation of a working-man than of a beggar, or a vagrant! 1830B'ham Petit. Rights §6 in Life T. Attwood (1885) 154 That..all the taxes ought to be taken off from those articles necessary for the subsistence and comfort of working men. 1873Iron 5 July 5/1 The..prevalence of what are called ‘working-men's candidates’. 1896Westm. Gaz. 4 Mar. 8/2 The word ‘working-man’ was here held to include a clerk or small shopkeeper, or anyone whose total income did not exceed {pstlg}150 a year. 1901W. R. H. Trowbridge Lett. her Mother to Eliz. x. 43 Mr. Wertzelmann..held out a hand like a working-man's.
b. Comb. in the possessive, denoting institutions established for working men, as working man's (or men's) association, working-man's club, working-man's college, working-man's institute.
1839Working men's association [see working class b]. 1844Lexington (Ky.) Observer 2 Oct. 3/1 The Working Men's Clay Club of this city will hold an adjourned meeting. 1861Mrs. Gaskell Let. 16 Apr. (1966) 650 He has..established a small working man's Club, with the help of a low Church curate. 1961Economist 30 Dec. 1270/1 The Working Men's Club and Institute Union achieves its centenary next year. 1976National Observer (U.S.) 18 Dec. 18/3 It opens in a Manchester secondary⁓school classroom, where a sextet of aspiring stand-up comics has assembled for their Big Chance, an audition before a real..agent at a local working-man's club.
1856C. Fox Let. 27 June in Jrnls. (1972) 223 Oxford... I was delighted to hear of their successful experiment to unite Town and Gown by a Working Man's College. 1921G. B. Shaw Back to Methuselah ii. 61, I was asked to deliver an address to the students at the Working Men's College. 1971G. Steiner Bluebeard's Castle iii. 61 The categories of schooling and public enlightenment—the lyceum, the public library, the working men's college.
1882F. A. Kemble Records of Later Life III. 293 A reading that I gave for the Working Men's Institute in Brighton. 1980E. Blishen Nest of Teachers i. i. 4 A Working Men's Institute..established in the last century.
So ˈworking-ˈwoman.
1853Dickens Bleak Ho. xv, A child, playing at washing, and imitating a poor working-woman. 1918Current History Feb. 200 Workingmen and workingwomen have raised the cry for bread, peace, and liberty in the street. |