lifeman
/ˈlʌɪfmən/rare
noun
Stephen Potter's term for: a person who practises lifemanship; one who is skilful in acquiring an advantage or ‘edge’ over another.
Origin
1940s; earliest use found in Simeon Potter (b. 1898). From life + man, after lifemanship.
- autothrottle
- auto-timer
- autotomic
- autotomise
- autotomize
- autotomizing
- autotomous
- autotomy
- autotoxaemia
- autotoxemia
- autotoxic
- autotoxication
- autotoxin
- auto tracking
- auto-train
- autotransformer
- autotransfuse
- autotransfusion
- autotransplant
- autotransplantation
- autotransplanted
- autotray
- autotroph
- autotrophic
- autotrophically