repairman
noun
re·pair·man
ri-ˈper-ˌman 
-mən
: one who repairs
specifically
: one whose occupation is to make repairs in a mechanism
Examples of repairman in a Sentence
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The duo had traversed to the body of water that day in January of 2023 in Davie, Florida hoping to find the whereabouts of an air conditioner repairman missing since 1986.
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Sarah Nelson, The Indianapolis Star, 23 Jan. 2024
Brass specialist Paty Moreno spoke about her struggles as a single mom, while woodwinds repairman Duane Michaels recalled opening for Elvis in 1975 with his bluegrass band.
—Cathy Free, Washington Post, 16 Mar. 2024
From there, Gay furthered his guitar repair and building knowledge at the Musicians Institute in Hollywood before becoming a repair technician at Guitar Center and then bouncing around as a repairman and luthier for a handful of different companies both in America and Asia.
—Spin Contributor, SPIN, 28 Feb. 2024
The town has a real sense of community, where dinner parties that go long into the night are commonplace, and everyone from the cheesemonger to the auto repairman is likely to know your name.
—Ariel Okin, Vogue, 27 Feb. 2024
Morris suggests an alternate theory: that Mac Isaac, the Trump-supporting, legally blind computer repairman, was a Trojan horse for a right-wing scheme to broadcast the worst of Biden’s digital life, according to text messages filed in L.A. County Superior Court this spring.
—Tribune News Service, Hartford Courant, 10 Jan. 2024
The track repairman had vomited and was out of it, according to the court records.
—Topher Sanders, ProPublica, 16 Dec. 2023
McLemore, a clock repairman, asked Reed, who was based in New York, to investigate a murder in the small Alabama town, and Reed took him up on the request after about a year of email correspondence.
—Audrey Conklin, Fox News, 6 Dec. 2023
Morris suggests an alternate theory: that Mac Isaac, the Trump-supporting, legally blind computer repairman, was a Trojan horse for a right-wing scheme to broadcast the worst of Biden’s digital life, according to text messages filed in L.A. County Superior Court last spring.
—Matt Hamilton, Los Angeles Times, 3 Jan. 2024
Sarah Nelson, The Indianapolis Star, 23 Jan. 2024
Brass specialist Paty Moreno spoke about her struggles as a single mom, while woodwinds repairman Duane Michaels recalled opening for Elvis in 1975 with his bluegrass band.
—Cathy Free, Washington Post, 16 Mar. 2024
From there, Gay furthered his guitar repair and building knowledge at the Musicians Institute in Hollywood before becoming a repair technician at Guitar Center and then bouncing around as a repairman and luthier for a handful of different companies both in America and Asia.
—Spin Contributor, SPIN, 28 Feb. 2024
The town has a real sense of community, where dinner parties that go long into the night are commonplace, and everyone from the cheesemonger to the auto repairman is likely to know your name.
—Ariel Okin, Vogue, 27 Feb. 2024
Morris suggests an alternate theory: that Mac Isaac, the Trump-supporting, legally blind computer repairman, was a Trojan horse for a right-wing scheme to broadcast the worst of Biden’s digital life, according to text messages filed in L.A. County Superior Court this spring.
—Tribune News Service, Hartford Courant, 10 Jan. 2024
The track repairman had vomited and was out of it, according to the court records.
—Topher Sanders, ProPublica, 16 Dec. 2023
McLemore, a clock repairman, asked Reed, who was based in New York, to investigate a murder in the small Alabama town, and Reed took him up on the request after about a year of email correspondence.
—Audrey Conklin, Fox News, 6 Dec. 2023
Morris suggests an alternate theory: that Mac Isaac, the Trump-supporting, legally blind computer repairman, was a Trojan horse for a right-wing scheme to broadcast the worst of Biden’s digital life, according to text messages filed in L.A. County Superior Court last spring.
—Matt Hamilton, Los Angeles Times, 3 Jan. 2024
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repairman
noun
re·pair·man
ri-ˈpa(ə)r-ˌman
-ˈpe(ə)r-,
-mən
: a person whose occupation is making repairs
TV repairman
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