Workingman
['wə:kiŋmæn]
Definition
(n.) A laboring man; a man who earns his daily support by manual labor.
Typed by Hester
Examples
- If we are industrious, we shall never starve; for, _At the workingman's house hunger looks in, but dares not enter_. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- As he expressed it: We will give the workingman and his family ornamentation in their house. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- The visitor of the night before was not a gentleman, neither was he a workingman. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- Edison's conception of the workingman's ideal house has been a broad one from the very start. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- This invention is practically a gift to the workingmen of the world and their families. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- No one, for example, would accuse Karl Marx of disloyalty to workingmen. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Thus the very workingmen who agitate for a better diffusion of wealth display a marked hostility to improvements in the production of it. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- To the workingmen it has brought home the importance of capturing the control of industry. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- They have tried to arouse in workingmen the consciousness of an historical mission--the patience of that labor is one of the wonders of the age. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
Editor: Susanna