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teamster

[ teem-ster ]

noun

  1. a person who drives a team or a truck for hauling, especially as an occupation.
  2. a member of the Teamsters Union.


teamster

/ ˈtiːmstə /

noun

  1. a driver of a team of horses used for haulage
  2. the driver of a lorry


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Word History and Origins

Origin of teamster1

An Americanism dating back to 1770–80; team + -ster

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Example Sentences

It’s that company whose wage negotiations with more than 250 workers represented by Teamster’s Local 542 stalled, leading to the strike.

Republic wanted to terminate its obligations and put workers in a 401(k) (or at least a more solvent Teamster pension plan).

Anuzis, once a Teamster, qualifies by temperament and territory.

And the teamster pranced out and brandished his blacksnake whip menacingly.

The Deacon looked at the gesticulating teamster a minute, and the dormant impulse of his youth256 stirred again within him.

"I won't take no slack from no old Wabash hayseed like you," responded the teamster cordially.

The teamster did as he was bid, and drove on till they came up to where the boys were sitting on a fence-corner waiting for them.

Dad Frazer was a man of sixty or sixty-five, who had been an army teamster in the days of frontier posts.

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