workingman in English
noun
1
a man who works for wages, especially in manual or industrial work.
When a mechanics' union campaigned for workingmen 's interests in 1828, it was a signal advance for cobblers and their kind.
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Below are sample sentences containing the word "workingman" from the English Dictionary. We can refer to these sentence patterns for sentences in case of finding sample sentences with the word "workingman", or refer to the context using the word "workingman" in the English Dictionary.
1. ABBOTT The impudence of the authorities, to decoy an unsuspecting workingman across the State line, and then arrest him as my Accomplice! PRISON MEMOIRS OF AN ANARCHIST ALEXANDER BERKMAN
2. By Jesus’ time those traditions had become so voluminous and such an oppressive morass of legalistic nit-picking —so laden with time-consuming ceremonial rituals— that no workingman could possibly keep them.