workwoman

Example Sentences

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His Majesty & Her Majesty patriotically impersonated, last week, the roles of a stupid workman and workwoman trying to operate complex factory machinery on the good old British plan for "muddling through."

From Time Magazine Archive

I am not a tradesman myself, and I don't care to make money out of a workwoman.

From Fr?d?rique; vol. 1 by Kock, Charles Paul de

"Do you know La Goualeuse and a young workwoman called Rigolette?" she inquired of Lorraine.

From The Mysteries of Paris, Volume 6 of 6 by Sue, Eugène

The milliner—who was not unkind or hardhearted, only badly in debt—was touched, took her in hand with good-will, found her the most patient and earnest of pupils, and made her a good workwoman.

From Dickens' Stories About Children Every Child Can Read by Dickens, Charles

He was simply told to go and work in the company's colliery, where there was better pay; and the workman or workwoman imagined this was an advance, not a degradation.

From Black Diamonds by Jókai, Mór