WORKING PERSON
Dictionary entry overview: What does working person mean?
• WORKING PERSON (noun)
The noun WORKING PERSON has 1 sense:
1. an employee who performs manual or industrial labor
Familiarity information: WORKING PERSON used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• WORKING PERSON (noun)
Meaning:
An employee who performs manual or industrial labor
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Synonyms:
working man; working person; workingman; workman
Hypernyms ("working person" is a kind of...):
employee (a worker who is hired to perform a job)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "working person"):
excavator (a workman who excavates for foundations of buildings or for quarrying)
paster (a workman who pastes)
disinfestation officer; rat-catcher (a workman employed to destroy or drive away vermin)
road mender; roadman (a workman who is employed to repair roads)
roundsman (a workman employed to make rounds (to deliver goods or make inspections or so on))
scratcher (a workman who uses a tool for scratching)
shearer (a workman who uses shears to cut leather or metal or textiles)
sponger (a workman employed to collect sponges)
stamper (a workman whose job is to form or cut out by applying a mold or die (either by hand or by operating a stamping machine))
utility man (a workman expected to serve in any capacity when called on)
warehouseman; warehouser (a workman who manages or works in a warehouse)
bagger; boxer; packer (a workman employed to pack things into containers)
mover (workman employed by a moving company)
blaster; chargeman (a workman employed to blast with explosives)
fuller (a workman who fulls (cleans and thickens) freshly woven cloth for a living)
gas fitter (a workman who installs and repairs gas fixtures and appliances)
guest worker; guestworker (a person with temporary permission to work in another country)
heaver (a workman who heaves freight or bulk goods (especially at a dockyard))
jack; laborer; labourer; manual laborer (someone who works with their hands; someone engaged in manual labor)
lacer (a workman who laces shoes or footballs or books (during binding))
lather (a workman who puts up laths)
Luddite (one of the 19th century English workmen who destroyed laborsaving machinery that they thought would cause unemployment)
factory worker; mill-hand (a workman in a mill or factory)
wetter (a workman who wets the work in a manufacturing process)
