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UK
/ɹɪpˈeəmən/
]
[ US /ɹiˈpɛɹˌmæn, ɹɪˈpɛɹˌmæn/ ]
[ US /ɹiˈpɛɹˌmæn, ɹɪˈpɛɹˌmæn/ ]
NOUN
- a skilled worker whose job is to repair things
How To Use repairman In A Sentence
- One story has it that a man whose ticket had not arrived in the mail as promised telephoned Hoover customer service for a repairman.
- The students are worried, too. Finally, a repairman is sent for.
- Okay, we will send a repairman to your home and fix it.
- In the course of his two-hour service call, I telephone my husband twice to answer questions about what the repairman is supposed to be doing and what the problem with our furnace has been.
- One early participant, postal-meter repairman Ian Williams, signed on last year after he discovered he had diabetes.
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- Like the Maytag repairman, the unit armorer must have been one bored fellow.
- Like the Maytag repairman, the unit armorer must have been one bored fellow.
- As if I were as uncredentialled in this area as the TV repairman. DEATH OF A NYMPH
- This paper studies one unIt'system a vacation of a repairman.