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Mechanic, perhaps, one calling back about a couple of items
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repairman
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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Some new networks can heal themselves when a break occurs, without any involvement from a repairman . ▪ The repairman at the telephone company no longer makes his repairs. ▪ The closet bulged with an assortment of costumes: policeman, ...
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Word definitions in WordNet
n. a skilled worker whose job is to repair things [syn: repairer , maintenance man , service man , fixer ]
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Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. A man whose job is to repair things
Usage examples of repairman.
To anyone other than me, my lone ranger probably looked like a forty-odd-year-old off-duty photocopier I repairman on his way to play candlepins at the local bowling alley.
Leila Yanders was outside with a repairman who was giving her an estimate on fixing the trailer side where her husband had gotten carried away with his ax.
Police believed he might have been responsible for as many as three hundred sexual assaults, and the fear was so great that legitimate repairmen and deliverymen were being refused admittance.
That means extra typists to transcribe the wiretaps, and extra clerks to photocopy the transcripts, and extra repairmen to replace the toner in the photocopy machines, and so onall the way down to the extra process servers and bail bondsmen needed as the indictment draws near.
He studied a gardener on a riding mower, a in a white coat running with towels to the tennis court, a repairman caulking the edge of a window.
The Friday before Labor Day weekend the store's cooling system went sour, we couldn't get a repairman and I spent three bad hours fixing it, ruining my second-best pants and getting myself reeking.
There were other watch repairmen in the area, at the Eastgate for instance, but how would she get there?
TINA LEFT THE REPAIRMAN FROM THE GAS COMPANY in the garage and returned to Danny's room.
It was not electrical tape such as might be used by telephone repairmen but was a common weather insulating tape available in almost any hardware store.
Only a moment ago, it had committed electrical lese majeste on the person of the sovereign abbot, who, after calling a computer repairman and waiting three days for him to appear, had decided to repair the stenographic abomination himself.
This can be accomplished by posing as a repairman, bribing a custodian or night watchman, or (in the worst case) breaking and entering.
Most of his information comes from servants and repairmen and delivery boys, the so-called invisible people who pass in and out of people's homes attracting data like lint, and who meet Lee in parking garages and shopping centers to sell what they have.
He generally glided into the shop, stopping his cart by the counter, and if Jim Fergesson was around he asked to be allowed to go downstairs to watch the two TV repairmen at work.
But the repairmen don't do anything but replace defective sealed boxes with functioning sealed boxes that are shipped to us from the future.
All of the machinists, skilled tradesmen, and repairmen were beautiful young women.