Workman
noun
A man who performs manual labor, especially in construction or industry.
The workman was busy repairing the broken window.
Often appears as...
- skilled workman
- construction workman
noun
A player of a game who does consistent and dependable work but is not outstanding or flashy.
He may not be the star of the team, but he's a reliable workman.
Often appears as...
- reliable workman
- dependable workman
Usage tips
Approving
Colloquial
noun
A man who performs manual labor, especially in construction or industry.
The workman was busy repairing the broken window.
Often appears as...
- skilled workman
- construction workman
noun
A player of a game who does consistent and dependable work but is not outstanding or flashy.
He may not be the star of the team, but he's a reliable workman.
Often appears as...
- reliable workman
- dependable workman
Usage tips
Approving
Colloquial
Definition 1 of 2
Pro Tip 1/3Gender Specific
The term 'workman' refers specifically to a male worker, although in modern usage, gender-neutral terms are preferred.
The workman, with his tools in hand, was ready for the task.
Pro Tip 2/3Manual Labor
The word emphasizes physical or manual labor, often associated with construction or industrial fields.
The workman laid bricks with precision and care.
Pro Tip 3/3Skill Implication
Can suggest the worker has particular skills or craftsmanship, especially in a trade.
The skilled workman crafted a beautiful wooden staircase.
Pro Tip 1/3Gender Specific
The term 'workman' refers specifically to a male worker, although in modern usage, gender-neutral terms are preferred.
The workman, with his tools in hand, was ready for the task.
Pro Tip 2/3Manual Labor
The word emphasizes physical or manual labor, often associated with construction or industrial fields.
The workman laid bricks with precision and care.
Pro Tip 3/3Skill Implication
Can suggest the worker has particular skills or craftsmanship, especially in a trade.
The skilled workman crafted a beautiful wooden staircase.
Pro Tip 1/3Gender Specific
The term 'workman' refers specifically to a male worker, although in modern usage, gender-neutral terms are preferred.
The workman, with his tools in hand, was ready for the task.
Pro Tip 2/3Manual Labor
The word emphasizes physical or manual labor, often associated with construction or industrial fields.
The workman laid bricks with precision and care.
Pro Tip 3/3Skill Implication
Can suggest the worker has particular skills or craftsmanship, especially in a trade.
The skilled workman crafted a beautiful wooden staircase.
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A Visual History of...
This is the typical organization chart. I'm assuming many of you have seen a similar chart as well, in your own corporations, or others. It's a top-down structure that normally starts with the CEO at the very top, and where you can drill down all the way to the individual workmen on the bottom.
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Rob Forbes: Ways of...
going across, these magenta squiggles, the workmen being reduced to decorative elements, just a nice, kind of, breakup of the urban place. And, you know, that no longer exists. You've captured it for a moment, and finding this little still life's like listening to little songs or
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Why is the Mona Lisa so...
it wasn’t totally inconceivable for Peruggia to be locked inside the museum. And, lucky for him, when a workman encountered him in the stairwell, he simply helped Peruggia open the door and let him walk out into the morning. The theft made international headlines.
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The 3,000-year history...
Now it's called Champion. It was meant to keep athletes warm. Of course, though, it was such a functional, comfortable garment that it was very rapidly adopted by workmen everywhere. And then, around the 1980s, it also gets adopted
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Builders of the Pyramids...
violence people who are buried until our symmetry are the workmen who died during the construction of building the fairness in we are able now for the first time to understand the delight of the welcome and open temperament the
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How Pharaohs Projected...
It would have been a harsh environment. This dust would have been everywhere. And yet the workmen, the craftsmen, the masons, they were all willing participants, loyal to pharaoh. It would have taken thousands of people decades
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The real story behind...
In Archimedes's day, no one had attempted anything like this. It was like asking, "Can a mountain fly?" King Hieron had a lot riding on that question. Hundreds of workmen were to labor for years on constructing the Syracusia
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What gardening taught me...
It was hiding behind leftover patches of linoleum on the worn-out floor my mother was having removed. The workman was busy when the garden caught my attention. My eyes became glued to the patterns of embroidered roses
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One of the most epic...
Today, we understand this as decompression sickness, but at the time, it appeared to be an unexplainable pain or dizziness that killed several workmen. In 1872, it nearly claimed the life of the chief engineer.
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Tutankhamun's True...
It's always exciting. Sometimes there is even between the workmen a bit of a competition.
Video examples
A Visual History of...
This is the typical organization chart. I'm assuming many of you have seen a similar chart as well, in your own corporations, or others. It's a top-down structure that normally starts with the CEO at the very top, and where you can drill down all the way to the individual workmen on the bottom.
Video examples
Rob Forbes: Ways of...
going across, these magenta squiggles, the workmen being reduced to decorative elements, just a nice, kind of, breakup of the urban place. And, you know, that no longer exists. You've captured it for a moment, and finding this little still life's like listening to little songs or
Video examples
Why is the Mona Lisa so...
it wasn’t totally inconceivable for Peruggia to be locked inside the museum. And, lucky for him, when a workman encountered him in the stairwell, he simply helped Peruggia open the door and let him walk out into the morning. The theft made international headlines.
Video examples
The 3,000-year history...
Now it's called Champion. It was meant to keep athletes warm. Of course, though, it was such a functional, comfortable garment that it was very rapidly adopted by workmen everywhere. And then, around the 1980s, it also gets adopted
Video examples
Builders of the Pyramids...
violence people who are buried until our symmetry are the workmen who died during the construction of building the fairness in we are able now for the first time to understand the delight of the welcome and open temperament the
Video examples
How Pharaohs Projected...
It would have been a harsh environment. This dust would have been everywhere. And yet the workmen, the craftsmen, the masons, they were all willing participants, loyal to pharaoh. It would have taken thousands of people decades
Video examples
The real story behind...
In Archimedes's day, no one had attempted anything like this. It was like asking, "Can a mountain fly?" King Hieron had a lot riding on that question. Hundreds of workmen were to labor for years on constructing the Syracusia
Video examples
What gardening taught me...
It was hiding behind leftover patches of linoleum on the worn-out floor my mother was having removed. The workman was busy when the garden caught my attention. My eyes became glued to the patterns of embroidered roses
Video examples
One of the most epic...
Today, we understand this as decompression sickness, but at the time, it appeared to be an unexplainable pain or dizziness that killed several workmen. In 1872, it nearly claimed the life of the chief engineer.
Video examples
Tutankhamun's True...
It's always exciting. Sometimes there is even between the workmen a bit of a competition.
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John Ruskin
English Writer
It is impossible, as impossible as to raise the dead, to restore anything that has ever been great or beautiful in architecture. That which I have insisted upon as the life of the whole, that spirit which is given only by the hand and eye of the workman, can never be recalled.
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W. E. B. Du Bois
American Writer
Before the Civil War, the Negro was certainly as efficient a workman as the raw immigrant from Ireland or Germany. But, whereas the Irishmen found economic opportunity wide and daily growing wider, the Negro found public opinion determined to 'keep him in his place.
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Frederick W. Taylor
American Scientist
Hardly a competent workman can be found who does not devote a considerable amount of time to studying just how slowly he can work and still convince his employer that he is going at a good pace.
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Saint Francis de Sales
Swiss Clergyman
We must never undervalue any person. The workman loves not that his work should be despised in his presence. Now God is present everywhere, and every person is His work.
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Charles Spurgeon
British Clergyman
Nothing reflects so much honor on a workman as a trial of his work and its endurance of it. So it is with God. It honors Him when His saints preserve their integrity.
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Plato
Greek Philosopher
All men are by nature equal, made all of the same earth by one Workman; and however we deceive ourselves, as dear unto God is the poor peasant as the mighty prince.
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Jean de la Bruyere
French Philosopher
When a book raises your spirit, and inspires you with noble and manly thoughts, seek for no other test of its excellence. It is good, and made by a good workman.
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Peter Latham
English Athlete
Common sense is in medicine the master workman.
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Charles Wesley
English Clergyman
God buries His workmen but carries on His work.
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Jean de La Fontaine
French Poet
By the work one knows the workman.
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John Ruskin
English Writer
It is impossible, as impossible as to raise the dead, to restore anything that has ever been great or beautiful in architecture. That which I have insisted upon as the life of the whole, that spirit which is given only by the hand and eye of the workman, can never be recalled.
Quote examples
W. E. B. Du Bois
American Writer
Before the Civil War, the Negro was certainly as efficient a workman as the raw immigrant from Ireland or Germany. But, whereas the Irishmen found economic opportunity wide and daily growing wider, the Negro found public opinion determined to 'keep him in his place.
Quote examples
Frederick W. Taylor
American Scientist
Hardly a competent workman can be found who does not devote a considerable amount of time to studying just how slowly he can work and still convince his employer that he is going at a good pace.
Quote examples
Saint Francis de Sales
Swiss Clergyman
We must never undervalue any person. The workman loves not that his work should be despised in his presence. Now God is present everywhere, and every person is His work.
Quote examples
Charles Spurgeon
British Clergyman
Nothing reflects so much honor on a workman as a trial of his work and its endurance of it. So it is with God. It honors Him when His saints preserve their integrity.
Quote examples
Plato
Greek Philosopher
All men are by nature equal, made all of the same earth by one Workman; and however we deceive ourselves, as dear unto God is the poor peasant as the mighty prince.
Quote examples
Jean de la Bruyere
French Philosopher
When a book raises your spirit, and inspires you with noble and manly thoughts, seek for no other test of its excellence. It is good, and made by a good workman.
Quote examples
Peter Latham
English Athlete
Common sense is in medicine the master workman.
Quote examples
Charles Wesley
English Clergyman
God buries His workmen but carries on His work.
Quote examples
Jean de La Fontaine
French Poet
By the work one knows the workman.
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