machinist

IPA: mʌʃˈinʌst

A constructor of machines and engines; someone knowledgeable about machines.
A person skilled in the use of machine tools for fashioning metal parts or tools out of metal.
A person who operates machinery.
A person employed to shift scenery in a theater.

Examples of "machinist" in Sentences

The workman in the old machine shop was known as a machinist, an apprentice or a helper.
He's a journeyman, which is the top rating for machinist, meaning he can make almost any part in a Boeing airliner.
The worker in the machine shop of today is no longer known as a machinist, because that term does not cover the present range of positions.
The machinist was a widow, and her machine had been bought out of her husband's club and insurance money when he died twenty-one years before.
Occupations with an increase in employment included some manufacturing and logistics occupations, such as machinist and transportation-worker supervisors.
This continuous assault has not been limited to farm labor, as proponents like to suggest, but includes many well compensated positions, (such as machinist and mechanic), for large companies.