elevator man

1. 1.

   a man employed to operate an elevator

   “in England they call an elevator man a liftman”

   Synonymselevator boyliftman

   Broaderelevator operator

Questions about elevator man

What does elevator man mean?

elevator man means "a man employed to operate an elevator".

What is another word for elevator man?

Close synonyms include elevator boy, liftman. 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 elevator man a common word?

elevator man 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.