pipe fitter

noun

: a worker who installs and repairs piping

Examples of pipe fitter in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web Anita eventually settled down with Robert Hoover, a pipe fitter for General Electric, in the town of Knox, about forty minutes west of Albany. Jay Caspian Kang, The New Yorker, 26 Feb. 2024 The plumbers and pipe fitters’ union similarly waited until August 2020 to back Biden, and has also already endorsed him this year. Jeff Stein, Washington Post, 26 Feb. 2024 Intel, which is also building a new factory but in Ohio, is having a tough time getting enough electricians and pipe fitters to complete the job. Will Rinehart, Washington Examiner, 9 Jan. 2024 And that’s pretty remarkable for a sheet metal worker or a plumber or a pipe fitter to have. Rob Nikolewski, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Nov. 2023 Also on the skeleton crew is Elise Smelser, a pipe fitter who grew up near the factory and began working there in 1999, training under the supervision of her father. Jeanne Whalen, Washington Post, 22 Mar. 2023 One patient, Edward J. Nevin, a 75-year-old retired pipe fitter, died. Ed Shanahan, BostonGlobe.com, 30 Sep. 2022 His father, Paul, was a pipe fitter in the Brooklyn Navy Yard. Sam Roberts, New York Times, 23 Dec. 2022 In the mid-two-thousands, Lőrinc Mészáros, one of Orbán’s childhood friends, was a pipe fitter receiving welfare checks; shortly after Orbán returned to power, in 2010, Mészáros became the richest person in Hungary. Andrew Marantz, The New Yorker, 27 June 2022

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Word History

First Known Use

1860, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of pipe fitter was in 1860

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“Pipe fitter.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/pipe%20fitter. Accessed 19 Apr. 2024.

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pipe fitter

noun
: a person who installs and repairs piping
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