workingman

[ wur-king-man ]

/ ˈwɜr kɪŋˌmæn /

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noun, plural work·ing·men.

a man of the working class; a man, whether skilled or unskilled, who earns his living at some manual or industrial work.

Origin of workingman

First recorded in 1630–40; working + man

usage note for workingman

See -man.

Words nearby workingman

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Example sentences from the Web for workingman

We find the American workingman bound by the law, as I have said,—everything taken from him.
Industrial Conspiracies|Clarence S. Darrow
Why is this right, which is at bottom the right of property itself, denied to the workingman?
What is Property?|P. J. Proudhon
But Transome's neither Whig nor Tory; he's the workingman's friend, the collier's friend, the friend of the honest navvy.
Felix Holt, The Radical|George Eliot
A workingman enrolling in a syndicat is not entering a party, not subscribing to a platform, nor accepting a creed.
Syndicalism in France|Louis Levine

If one knocks out the tooth of a workingman, he shall pay of a mana of silver.
Archology and the Bible|George A. Barton