workman

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
workman
    n 1: an employee who performs manual or industrial labor [syn:
         {workman}, {workingman}, {working man}, {working person}]
from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Workman \Work"man\, n.; pl. {Workmen}. [AS. weorcmann.]
   [1913 Webster]
   1. A man employed in labor, whether in tillage or
      manufactures; a worker.
      [1913 Webster]

   2. Hence, especially, a skillful artificer or laborer.
      [1913 Webster]
from Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856)
WORKMAN. One who labors, one who is employed to do business for another. 
     2. The obligations of a workman are to perform the work he has 
undertaken to do; to do it in proper time; to do it well to employ the 
things furnished him according to his contract. 
     3. His rights, are to be paid what his work is worth, or what it 
deserves; to have all the facilities which the employer can give him for 
doing his work. 1 Bouv. Just. n. 1000 to 1006.
from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
41 Moby Thesaurus words for "workman":
      blue-collar worker, breadwinner, casual, casual laborer,
      common laborer, day laborer, employee, factory worker, flunky,
      free lance, free-lancer, full-time worker, hand, industrial worker,
      jobber, jobholder, laborer, laboring man, menial, migrant, moiler,
      navvy, office temporary, operative, proletarian, roustabout,
      salaried worker, self-employed person, servant, stiff, temporary,
      toiler, wage earner, wage slave, wageworker, worker, workgirl,
      workhand, working girl, workingman, workingwoman
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