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adman
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n 1: someone whose business is advertising [syn: advertiser,
advertizer, adman]
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ain
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adj 1: belonging to or on behalf of a specified person
(especially yourself); preceded by a possessive; "for
your own use"; "do your own thing"; "she makes her own
clothes"; "`ain' is Scottish" [syn: own(a), ain]
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an
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n 1: an associate degree in nursing [syn: Associate in
Nursing, AN]
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anchorman
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n 1: a television reporter who coordinates a broadcast to which
several correspondents contribute [syn: anchor,
anchorman, anchorperson]
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bagman
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n 1: a salesman who travels to call on customers [syn:
traveling salesman, travelling salesman, commercial
traveler, commercial traveller, roadman, bagman]
2: a racketeer assigned to collect or distribute payoff money
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batman
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n 1: an orderly assigned to serve a British military officer
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bogeyman
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n 1: an imaginary monster used to frighten children [syn:
bogeyman, bugbear, bugaboo, boogeyman, booger]
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businessman
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n 1: a person engaged in commercial or industrial business
(especially an owner or executive) [syn: businessman,
man of affairs]
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cameraman
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n 1: a photographer who operates a movie camera [syn:
cameraman, camera operator, cinematographer]
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caveman
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n 1: someone who lives in a cave [syn: caveman, cave man,
cave dweller, troglodyte]
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chessman
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n 1: any of 16 white and 16 black pieces used in playing the
game of chess [syn: chessman, chess piece]
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committeeman
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n 1: a man who is a member of committee
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daemon
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n 1: an evil supernatural being [syn: devil, fiend, demon,
daemon, daimon]
2: a person who is part mortal and part god [syn: daemon,
demigod]
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dairyman
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n 1: the owner or manager of a dairy [syn: dairyman, dairy
farmer]
2: a man who works in a dairy
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deliveryman
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n 1: someone employed to make deliveries [syn: deliveryman,
delivery boy, deliverer]
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earthman
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n 1: an inhabitant of the earth [syn: tellurian, earthling,
earthman, worldling]
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everyman
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n 1: the ordinary person
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freedman
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n 1: a person who has been freed from slavery [syn: freedman,
freedwoman]
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gagman
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n 1: a comedian who uses gags [syn: gagman, standup
comedian]
2: someone who writes comic material for public performers [syn:
gagman, gagster, gagwriter]
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gasman
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n 1: someone employed by a gas company
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gunman
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n 1: a professional killer who uses a gun [syn: gunman,
gunslinger, hired gun, gun, gun for hire,
triggerman, hit man, hitman, torpedo, shooter]
2: a person who shoots a gun (as regards their ability) [syn:
gunman, gun]
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handyman
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n 1: a man skilled in various odd jobs and other small tasks
[syn: handyman, jack of all trades, odd-job man]
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hangman
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n 1: an executioner who hangs the condemned person
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headman
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n 1: an executioner who beheads the condemned person [syn:
headsman, headman]
2: the head of a tribe or clan [syn: headman, tribal chief,
chieftain, chief]
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iceman
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n 1: someone who cuts and delivers ice
2: a professional killer [syn: hatchet man, iceman]
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jazzman
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n 1: a musician who plays or composes jazz music [syn: jazz
musician, jazzman]
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lawman
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n 1: an officer of the law [syn: lawman, law officer, peace
officer]
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liftman
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n 1: a man employed to operate an elevator; "in England they
call an elevator man a liftman" [syn: elevator man,
elevator boy, liftman]
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linkman
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n 1: (formerly) an attendant hired to carry a torch for
pedestrians in dark streets [syn: linkboy, linkman]
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lumberman
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n 1: a person who fells trees [syn: lumberman, lumberjack,
logger, feller, faller]
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mailman
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n 1: a man who delivers the mail [syn: mailman, postman,
mail carrier, letter carrier, carrier]
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merman
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n 1: United States singer who appeared in several musical
comedies (1909-1984) [syn: Merman, Ethel Merman]
2: half man and half fish; lives in the sea
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middleman
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n 1: someone who buys large quantities of goods and resells to
merchants rather than to the ultimate customers [syn:
jobber, middleman, wholesaler]
2: the performer in the middle of a minstrel line who engages
the others in talk [syn: interlocutor, middleman]
3: a person who is in a position to give you special assistance;
"he used his business contacts to get an introduction to the
governor" [syn: contact, middleman]
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minuteman
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n 1: an American militiaman prior to and during the American
Revolution
2: a strategic weapon system using a guided missile of
intercontinental range; missiles are equipped with nuclear
warheads and dispersed in hardened silos
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motorman
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n 1: the operator of streetcar
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newsman
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n 1: a person who investigates and reports or edits news stories
[syn: reporter, newsman, newsperson]
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newspaperman
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n 1: a journalist employed to provide news stories for
newspapers or broadcast media [syn: correspondent,
newspaperman, newspaperwoman, newswriter, pressman]
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oilman
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n 1: a person who owns or operates oil wells
2: a worker who produces or sells petroleum
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packman
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n 1: someone who travels about selling his wares (as on the
streets or at carnivals) [syn: peddler, pedlar,
packman, hawker, pitchman]
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patrolman
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n 1: a policeman who patrols a given region [syn: flatfoot,
patrolman]
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pressman
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n 1: someone whose occupation is printing [syn: printer,
pressman]
2: a journalist employed to provide news stories for newspapers
or broadcast media [syn: correspondent, newspaperman,
newspaperwoman, newswriter, pressman]
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repairman
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n 1: a skilled worker whose job is to repair things [syn:
repairman, maintenance man, service man]
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sandman
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n 1: an elf in fairy stories who sprinkles sand in children's
eyes to make them sleepy
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schoolman
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n 1: a scholar in one of the universities of the Middle Ages;
versed in scholasticism [syn: Schoolman, medieval
Schoolman]
2: a scholar who is skilled in academic disputation [syn:
academician, schoolman]
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selectman
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n 1: an elected member of a board of officials who run New
England towns
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snowman
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n 1: a figure of a person made of packed snow
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spaceman
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n 1: a person trained to travel in a spacecraft; "the Russians
called their astronauts cosmonauts" [syn: astronaut,
spaceman, cosmonaut]
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stableman
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n 1: someone employed in a stable to take care of the horses
[syn: stableman, stableboy, groom, hostler,
ostler]
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strongman
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n 1: a man who performs feats of strength at a fair or circus
2: a powerful political figure who rules by the exercise of
force or violence; "he is determined to bring down the Iraqi
strongman"
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superman
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n 1: a person with great powers and abilities [syn: demigod,
superman, Ubermensch]
2: street name for lysergic acid diethylamide [syn: acid,
back breaker, battery-acid, dose, dot, Elvis,
loony toons, Lucy in the sky with diamonds, pane,
superman, window pane, Zen]
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tallyman
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n 1: one who sells goods on the installment plan
2: one who keeps a tally of quantity or weight of goods produced
or shipped or received [syn: tallyman, tally clerk]
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trainman
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n 1: an employee of a railroad [syn: trainman, railroader,
railroad man, railwayman, railway man]
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unman
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v 1: cause to lose one's nerve; "an unmanning experience"
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weatherman
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n 1: predicts the weather [syn: weatherman, weather
forecaster]
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wingman
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n 1: the pilot who positions his aircraft outside and behind (on
the wing of) the leader of a flying formation
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wireman
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n 1: a worker who installs and repairs electric wiring [syn:
wireman, wirer]
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yardman
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n 1: worker in a railway yard
2: a laborer hired to do outdoor work (such as mowing lawns)
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amman
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n 1: the capital and largest city of Jordan [syn: Amman,
capital of Jordan]
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anne
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n 1: Queen of England and Scotland and Ireland; daughter if
James II and the last of the Stuart monarchs; in 1707 she
was the last English ruler to exercise the royal veto over
parliament (1665-1714)
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telemann
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n 1: German baroque composer (1681-1767) [syn: Telemann,
Georg Philipp Telemann]
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taxman
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n 1: someone who collects taxes for the government [syn: tax
collector, taxman, exciseman, collector of internal
revenue, internal revenue agent]
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turkoman
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n 1: a member of a Turkic people living in Turkmenistan and
neighboring areas [syn: Turkoman, Turkmen, Turcoman]
2: the Turkic language spoken by the Turkoman [syn: Turkmen,
Turkoman, Turcoman]
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indiaman
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n 1: a large sailing ship that was engaged in the British trade
with India
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roadman
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n 1: a salesman who travels to call on customers [syn:
traveling salesman, travelling salesman, commercial
traveler, commercial traveller, roadman, bagman]
2: a workman who is employed to repair roads [syn: roadman,
road mender]
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dogman
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legman
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safetyman
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sideman
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trackman
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wheelman
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nightman
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gateman
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ahn
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ann
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reman
0
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subman
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hammerman
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spiderman
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stuntman
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shimon
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beaman
0
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beamon
0
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beeman
0
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beman
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deman
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binman
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topman
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fenman
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apeman
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