working man
53
2.9
- noun
- /ˈwɜrkɪŋ mæn/
:
hombre trabajador
- As a working man, he spends most of his days at the factory, operating heavy machinery.
- a hard-working man
- working men and women
He was a working man, had a fifth grade education.
- He was a working man, had a fifth grade education.
- And let me just tell you, little Daddy, that this is a working man's cut.
- I had to come out and voice an ordinary working man.
- That was, I think it's fucking Boxing Day, but we've been on, we've been down the working man's club on the piss all day.
- And it just sort of just, you know, paid off politicians versus sort of the working man.
- Well, one reason is the subject of my guest's book, Second Class, How the elites betrayed America's working men and women.
- It's about working men, working class mentality as opposed to that middle class progressive mentality.
- But the flesh eating piranhas whipping up social media outrage are only too happy to trample on the rights of honest, hard working men like him.
- And so until the laws themselves are fixed in a way that does make it at least more palatable for the everyday working man and woman, I think it's still broken.
- And I grew up in this country that the, their agenda goes way beyond, way beyond simple improvements of the, of the conditions for working men and women.
- Harder than I work is the hardest working man I know, honestly.
Examples
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My father... he was a working man, but he got black lung.
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I respect the hard-working men and women who teach in our public schools.
Academic text (2010) -
I always wanted to be a working man.
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"I want you to understand that I am a working man," he would tell them.
Academic text (1990) -
The kind of thing a working man would have back there.
Fiction book (1994) -
Yeah, well, he's a working man now.
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Slightly balding, he had the face of a working man, someone who had been out in all weather.
Fiction book (1999) -
It has earned him the affection of every working man and woman.
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All we are is a mouthpiece to a system, to a society, a society that ignores the working man.
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I'm a working man.
Synonyms
600
1.0
A person employed to do physical or routine jobs
68
1.0
A person who does hard physical work without special skills, often on building sites
49
2.8
A person who does manual or factory work for pay, not a manager
13
1.4
A person who does physical jobs like building or fixing things
4
3.2
A man who works on a farm for pay
3
2.9
A man who does manual work, often in a factory or on a building site
1
3.0
A person who does hard work using their hands
1
3.2
A skilled worker who does building or repair work
1
3.2
A person who repairs machines or home appliances
1
3.9
A man who does small repair jobs around the home
A man trained to do a certain trade like a carpenter
A person who does physical work with their hands
Antonyms
How Career-Focused
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly compositional: 'working' (engaged in paid work) modifies 'man', so a B1 learner who knows both words can infer 'a man who works'. Any additional class-based nuance (manual/industrial vs. managerial) is a contextual extension but does not prevent basic understanding from the constituents.
Etymology
Working man comes from a simple picture: a man who is working with his hands in a factory or on a farm. So, it now means 'a man who does ordinary paid work rather than being a boss or in an office job'.