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单词 switchman
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switchman

noun

switch·​man ˈswich-mən How to pronounce switchman (audio)
: one who attends a switch (as in a railroad yard)

Example Sentences

Recent Examples on the Web Tokyo Station still has a plaque marking the spot where then-Prime Minister Takashi Hara was fatally stabbed on Nov. 4, 1921, by a railway switchman who objected to the government’s policies. WSJ, 8 July 2022 The switchman he was initially accused of killing actually survived, Boyles said. Washington Post, 10 Jan. 2020 Five years later, John Brown was accused of severely injuring a switchman on an Illinois Central Railroad train. Washington Post, 10 Jan. 2020 Weeks, a clerk at phone company Southern Bell, applied for an open job as a switchman. Bryce Covert, Cosmopolitan, 9 Aug. 2017 Coach Williams’s longtime man Friday, Wayne Walden, a former academic counselor, played switchman, steering basketball players to these classes. Michael Powell, New York Times, 31 Mar. 2017

Word History

First Known Use

1843, in the meaning defined above

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