working man

1. 1.

   an employee who performs manual or industrial labor

   Synonymsworkmanworkingmanworking person

   Broaderemployee

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Questions about working man

What does working man mean?

working man means "an employee who performs manual or industrial labor".

What is another word for working man?

Close synonyms include workman, workingman, working person. 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 working man a common word?

working 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.