trainman
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Noun[edit]
trainman (plural trainmen)
- (rail transport) A person who works on trains on a railway / railroad.
- 1961 March, Warren Smith, “The problems of train regulation - a study of operation at Trent”, in Trains Illustrated, page 169:
- Fourth, if there is a shortage of motive power or of trainmen, it is generally the lower orders of freight train which have to be curtailed or cancelled altogether.
- (US) A brakeman.
References[edit]
- “trainman”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.