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Definition of repairman
: one who repairs; specifically : one whose occupation is to make repairs in a mechanism
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O'Keefe and three other men pleaded guilty in federal court in 2010 for falsely representing themselves as telephone repairmen in the New Orleans office of Mary Landrieu, who was then a Democratic senator from Louisiana.
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Upwards of 19,000 support personnel were trained to be aircraft and engine mechanics, armament specialists, radio repairmen, parachute riggers, control tower operators, policemen, administrative clerks and other positions.
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The repairman, Joseph D. Amico, 46, was arraigned in State Supreme Court in Manhattan on three counts of making terrorist threats and one count of aggravated harassment, a day after being extradited from Nevada.
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A repairman discovered a skimming device inside a fuel pump in the Centerbrook section of Essex on Tuesday.
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The company launched in 2014 in New York City as a digital tool for connecting startups to cleaners, repairmen and other service providers.
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Start with the ostensible foreground — perhaps a lunch or a visit from a svelte refrigerator repairman or a recipe for lemon drizzle cake — then introduce the emotional hobgoblins that throw the characters rewardingly off-kilter.
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In 1909, a shoe repairman named Victor Benator immigrated to Atlanta from the island of Rhodes via a $25 ship ticket.
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Mr. Madden was born in Baltimore in 1927 to John Madden, a meter repairman for Baltimore Gas and Electric, and Mary Madden, a homemaker and bookkeeper.
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First Known Use of repairman
1856
REPAIRMAN Defined for English Language Learners
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Definition of repairman for English Language Learners
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: a person (especially a man) whose job is to repair things
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