car-mechanic

1. 1.

   someone whose occupation is repairing and maintaining automobiles

   Synonymsautomobile mechanicauto-mechanicmechanicgrease monkey

   Broaderrepairman

Questions about car-mechanic

What does car-mechanic mean?

car-mechanic means "someone whose occupation is repairing and maintaining automobiles".

How many syllables are in car-mechanic?

car-mechanic has 4 syllables: car--me-cha-nic. The stress falls on "cha".

What is another word for car-mechanic?

Close synonyms include automobile mechanic, auto-mechanic, mechanic, grease monkey. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is car-mechanic a common word?

car-mechanic is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.