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repairman

[ri-pair-man, -muhn] / rɪˈpɛərˌmæn, -mən /
NOUN
mechanic
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His dad, a caravan repairman, and his older brother ran half a mile and arrived just as Mark was being loaded into an ambulance.

From BBC ● Aug. 20, 2026

In a workshop in Old Havana, amid cracked walls and aging work tools, 54-year-old repairman Rogelio Valdivia describes himself as a bonafide "Fidelista."

From Barron's ● Aug. 11, 2026

I get nothing but understanding when I explain to a repairman that he can’t work on Saturdays, because that’s my Sabbath.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2025

And as Tony tells her about his experience, Carrie looks over to see the shop’s repairman fixing an old grandfather clock.

From Salon ● Jun. 7, 2025

From a distance, I film my father speaking to the window repairman.

From "Love, Hate & Other Filters" by Samira Ahmed

Yau said fewer than five repairmen like him remain in Hong Kong practising this "barely profitable" umbrella trade.

From Barron's ● Dec. 27, 2025

“Our repairmen follow the sappers carefully, but persistently and stubbornly,” he said.

From New York Times ● Nov. 19, 2022

In the horror-comedy “Tremors,” Ward paired with Kevin Bacon to play a pair of repairmen who end up saving a hardscrabble Nevada desert community beset by giant underground snakes.

From Seattle Times ● May 13, 2022

There, a crew of six repairmen were clearing debris from corridors and stringing up lights to prepare the area as a shelter.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 10, 2020

To fix a broken machine, which was forged out of cast iron at a foundry inside Camp 14, Shin and other repairmen had to haul it on their backs to a repair shop upstairs.

From "Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West" by Blaine Harden




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