Definition of workingman
:one who works for wages usually at manual labor
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A reward for killing the beast eventually equaled a year’s salary for workingmen, writes historian Jean-Marc Moriceau in La Bête du Gévaudan.
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After the day’s work was done, Deford fell into the habit of going along with the newspaper’s typesetting and printing men to a workingman’s bar down by the docks.
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Not just any men, but characters — workingmen, old men, homeless men, policemen and firemen.
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Eldridge looks like a workingman in a Disfarmer portrait.
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In truth, the hot dog is the American id, our good and our bad, both humble street meat (the workingman's meal) and humility's opposite.
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First Known Use of workingman
before 12th century
WORKINGMAN Defined for Kids
workingman
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noun
work·ing·man
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Definition of workingman for Students
plural workingmen
\-ˌmen\
:a person who works for wages usually at manual labor
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