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lumbermen

noun

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plural of lumberman

as in loggers

a person whose job is to cut down trees a lumberman who supervises the rest of the team during logging season

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Recent Examples of lumbermen The history of gubernatorial candidates and winners in Wisconsin is replete with mayors, merchants, lawyers, lumbermen, publishers, educators, industrialists, secretaries of state, attorneys general and lieutenant governors. —

Craig Gilbert, jsonline.com, 21 Jan. 2026 Where once these trees stood in the island of Negros, sugarcane now dominates, all benefiting the hacenderos who welcomed the American lumbermen to clear the forests for later agricultural conversion. —

JSTOR Daily, 19 Nov. 2025

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Over the past few years, a wave of companies has emerged to extract sophisticated and granular information about how employees spend their time, sometimes down to the minute, using tech such as location trackers, keystroke loggers, cameras, and microphones.

— Ellen Cushing, The Atlantic, 3 May 2026
Sliced from a tree felled by loggers in 1891, the cross-section was annotated with historical events that marked its 13 centuries of life, from the beginning of Chinese book printing to the Crusades to the invention of the telescope.

— Elena Megalos, Longreads, 31 Mar. 2026