as in doctors
a person who does general repairs or maintenance work
hired a handyman to paint the porch, clean the gutters, and replace the broken window
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Recent Examples of handymen
Residents were handymen and nannies for residents in Hurst, Euless and Bedford.
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Kamal Morgan, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 12 Dec. 2025
The bar and restaurant, nestled inside an old blue-and-yellow Victorian house just off of Highway 1, comes from owners Casey Plemons and Paul Watson, who, over their 10 years of friendship, have worked together as bartenders and handymen — and started a punk rock band called the Koffs.
—Kate Bradshaw, Mercury News, 1 Aug. 2025
Kamal Morgan, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 12 Dec. 2025
The bar and restaurant, nestled inside an old blue-and-yellow Victorian house just off of Highway 1, comes from owners Casey Plemons and Paul Watson, who, over their 10 years of friendship, have worked together as bartenders and handymen — and started a punk rock band called the Koffs.
—Kate Bradshaw, Mercury News, 1 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for handymen
doctors
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The American Jewish community responded to the Yom Kippur War, which killed nearly three thousand Israeli soldiers, by flooding Israel with donations; doctors and students volunteered to join the war effort.—
Eyal Press,
New Yorker,
30 Mar. 2026
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However, in a pair of letters to the editor published in the Journal of Pediatrics, doctors criticized the article as hyped.—
David Hilzenrath,
USA Today,
29 Mar. 2026
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“Handymen.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/handymen. Accessed 31 Mar. 2026.
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