noun
an employee who performs manual or industrial labor
• Syn: ↑workman, ↑working man, ↑working person
• Derivationally related forms: ↑workmanship (for: ↑workman)
• Hypernyms: ↑employee
• Hyponyms:
↑excavator, ↑blaster, ↑chargeman, ↑fuller, ↑gas fitter, ↑guest worker, ↑guestworker, ↑heaver, ↑laborer, ↑manual laborer, ↑labourer, ↑jack, ↑lacer, ↑lather, ↑Luddite, ↑mill-hand, ↑factory worker, ↑mover, ↑packer, ↑bagger, ↑boxer, ↑paster, ↑rat-catcher, ↑disinfestation officer, ↑roadman, ↑road mender, ↑roundsman, ↑scratcher, ↑shearer, ↑sponger, ↑stamper, ↑utility man, ↑warehouser, ↑warehouseman, ↑wetter
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\\ˈ ̷ ̷ ̷ ̷ˌman, -ˌmaa(ə)n\ noun (plural workingmen) : one who works for wages usually at manual labor : one of the working class as distinguished from the professional and business classes
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/werr"king man'/, n., pl. workingmen.
a man of the working class; a man, whether skilled or unskilled, who earns his living at some manual or industrial work.
[1630-40; WORKING + MAN1]
Useful english dictionary. 2012.