plumber
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- (British) IPA: /ˈplʌmə/
plumber (plural plumbers)
- One who works in or with lead.
- One who furnishes, fits, and repairs pipes and other apparatus for the conveyance of water, gas, or drainage.
- One who installs piping for potable and waste water.
- A person who investigates or prevents leaks of information
- (British, informal) In the Royal Navy, an apprentice, a boy aged 16 to 18, who is trained in technical skills at the Dockyard Schools to become an artificer.
- (medicine, slang) A urologist.
- 1958, Father Provincial Assumption B.V.M. Monastery, The Chronicle (volumes 12-13, page 39)
- […] began the month with an operation at St. Joseph Hospital in Aurora, Ill. His surgeon, by the way, was a "plumber” – urologist.
- 1983, Toni Martin, How to Survive Medical School (page 127)
- Within surgery, the "cleaner" specialties, such as cardiac and neurosurgery, outrank the plumbers (urologists) and proctologists.
- 1958, Father Provincial Assumption B.V.M. Monastery, The Chronicle (volumes 12-13, page 39)
- French: (obsolete) plombeur
- German: Bleiarbeiter, Bleiarbeiterin
- Portuguese: chumbeiro
- Spanish: plomero
- French: plombier, tuyauteur, homme à pipe (Louisiana)
- German: Klempner, Klempnerin
- Italian: idraulico
- Portuguese: encanador
- Russian: водопрово́дчик
- Spanish: fontanero (Spain), gásfiter (Chile), gasfitero (Ecuador), plomero (Argentina)
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