Workman

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Workman \Work"man\, n.; pl. {Workmen}. [AS. weorcmann.]
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     1. A man employed in labor, whether in tillage or
        manufactures; a worker.
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     2. Hence, especially, a skillful artificer or laborer.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  workman
       n : an employee who performs manual or industrial labor [syn: {working
           man}, {working person}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  41 Moby Thesaurus words for "workman":
     blue-collar worker, breadwinner, casual, casual laborer,
     common laborer, day laborer, employee, factory worker, flunky,
     free lance, free-lancer, full-time worker, hand, industrial worker,
     jobber, jobholder, laborer, laboring man, menial, migrant, moiler,
     navvy, office temporary, operative, proletarian, roustabout,
     salaried worker, self-employed person, servant, stiff, temporary,
     toiler, wage earner, wage slave, wageworker, worker, workgirl,
     workhand, working girl, workingman, workingwoman
  
  

From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [bouvier]:

  WORKMAN. One who labors, one who is employed to do business for another. 
       2. The obligations of a workman are to perform the work he has 
  undertaken to do; to do it in proper time; to do it well to employ the 
  things furnished him according to his contract. 
       3. His rights, are to be paid what his work is worth, or what it 
  deserves; to have all the facilities which the employer can give him for 
  doing his work. 1 Bouv. Just. n. 1000 to 1006.