machinist
IPA: mʌʃˈinʌst
noun
- 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
- I'm an engineering machinist by trade.
- She is also the machinist of the gang.
- After the war, Laurie worked as a machinist.
- After leaving school he learned the machinist trade.
- He went to work for the railroadcompany as a machinist.
- The role of the machinist in manufacturing is important.
- He learned the machinist trade and became a skilled mechanic.
- He attended the common schools, and became a machinist by trade.
- In Japan, machinist is considered as one of the difficult occupations.
- A walkout would strip tens of thousands of Machinists of their paychecks.