repairman
noun
re·pair·man
ri-ˈper-ˌman 
-mən
: one who repairs
specifically
: one whose occupation is to make repairs in a mechanism
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In this post-apocalyptic romance, Cruise plays security repairman Jack Harper who's been left on Earth in 2077 as a custodian following a catastrophic alien invasion.
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Jeff Spry, Space.com, 14 Feb. 2025
At the century-old Souk Waqif here, dozens of watch repairmen spend their days maintaining luxury timepieces and doing more mundane jobs like replacing the batteries in digital watches.
—David Belcher, New York Times, 12 Feb. 2025
Several days later, the WinCo manager noticed a foul smell and called repairmen, who started removing bricks from a column outside the store and discovered a decomposing body.
—Keri Blakinger, Los Angeles Times, 14 Jan. 2025
Grunsfeld, a former astronaut who was the principal repairman on three of NASA’s previous Hubble-servicing missions, was part of the group who reviewed Isaacman’s proposal.
—Ross Andersen, The Atlantic, 5 Dec. 2024
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Jeff Spry, Space.com, 14 Feb. 2025
At the century-old Souk Waqif here, dozens of watch repairmen spend their days maintaining luxury timepieces and doing more mundane jobs like replacing the batteries in digital watches.
—David Belcher, New York Times, 12 Feb. 2025
Several days later, the WinCo manager noticed a foul smell and called repairmen, who started removing bricks from a column outside the store and discovered a decomposing body.
—Keri Blakinger, Los Angeles Times, 14 Jan. 2025
Grunsfeld, a former astronaut who was the principal repairman on three of NASA’s previous Hubble-servicing missions, was part of the group who reviewed Isaacman’s proposal.
—Ross Andersen, The Atlantic, 5 Dec. 2024
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repairman
noun
re·pair·man
ri-ˈpa(ə)r-ˌman
-ˈpe(ə)r-,
-mən
: a person whose occupation is making repairs
TV repairman
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