bridge-buildern.
/ˈbrɪdʒˌbɪldə/, U.S. /ˈbrɪdʒˌbɪldər/ 1. A person who or company which designs and constructs bridges.
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society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > builder > [noun] > builders of other structures
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1752 Honesty Best Policy 21 Gimcrack was the best bridge-builder in the world.
1881 Cent. Mag. Dec. 286/1 The pupil may get to be a bridge-builder or railroad man.
1939 Christian Sci. Monitor 3 Mar. 4/1 Practically every steel bridge is prefabricated, or put together in the back yard of the bridge builders before the pieces are taken apart, labeled and shipped for erection on the site.
2010 D. Blockley Bridges vi. 225 By the middle of the twentieth century a new ‘plastic theory’ was developed which enabled bridge builders to calculate the collapse load of a bridge.
2. figurative. A person who connects or reconciles different groups; one who promotes good communication or friendly relations between people, nations, etc.
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1904 Times 24 June 5/3 Mr. Black bridges the gulf between President and politicians. There are other bridge builders.
1956 H. Kraemer Relig. & Christian Faith v. xix. 323 [Their] great endeavour to be bridge-builders between the Christian faith and the..religious world of their day.
2004 High Country News 29 Mar. 5/2 In a lot of ways, I think I was chosen for this position as bridge-builder between the cultures.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2019; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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