"pointsman" meaning in All languages combined

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "points",
        "3": "man"
      },
      "expansion": "points + man",
      "name": "compound"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "points + man",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "pointsmen",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "pointsmen"
      },
      "expansion": "pointsman (plural pointsmen)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Occupations",
          "orig": "en:Occupations",
          "parents": [
            "People",
            "Work",
            "Human",
            "Human activity",
            "All topics",
            "Human behaviour",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Rail transportation",
          "orig": "en:Rail transportation",
          "parents": [
            "Transport",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2021 October 20, Dr Joseph Brennan, “A key part of our diverse railway heritage”, in RAIL, number 942, page 57",
          "text": "At their point of origin, constructing these boxes presented railway companies with an attractive proposition: to remove the need for pointsmen and flagmen operating at several ground-level locations around a railway site by housing one or two men in a signal structure.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A man in charge of railroad points or switches."
      ],
      "id": "en-pointsman-en-noun-qvvDJtlZ",
      "links": [
        [
          "rail transport",
          "rail transport"
        ],
        [
          "man",
          "man"
        ],
        [
          "railroad",
          "railroad"
        ],
        [
          "point",
          "point"
        ],
        [
          "switch",
          "switch"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(rail transport) A man in charge of railroad points or switches."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "rail-transport",
        "railways",
        "transport"
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "bg",
          "lang": "Bulgarian",
          "roman": "streločnik",
          "sense": "a man in charge of railroad points or switches",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "стрелочник"
        },
        {
          "code": "nl",
          "lang": "Dutch",
          "sense": "a man in charge of railroad points or switches",
          "word": "wisselwachter"
        },
        {
          "code": "izh",
          "lang": "Ingrian",
          "sense": "a man in charge of railroad points or switches",
          "word": "strelocnikka"
        },
        {
          "code": "mk",
          "lang": "Macedonian",
          "roman": "svŕtničar",
          "sense": "a man in charge of railroad points or switches",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "свр́тничар"
        },
        {
          "code": "pl",
          "lang": "Polish",
          "sense": "a man in charge of railroad points or switches",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "zwrotniczy"
        },
        {
          "code": "pa",
          "lang": "Punjabi",
          "roman": "kāṇṭevālā",
          "sense": "a man in charge of railroad points or switches",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "ਕਾਂਟੇਵਾਲਾ"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "pointsman"
}

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "points",
        "3": "man"
      },
      "expansion": "points + man",
      "name": "compound"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "points + man",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "pointsmen",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "pointsmen"
      },
      "expansion": "pointsman (plural pointsmen)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English compound terms",
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English nouns",
        "English nouns with irregular plurals",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "en:Occupations",
        "en:Rail transportation"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2021 October 20, Dr Joseph Brennan, “A key part of our diverse railway heritage”, in RAIL, number 942, page 57",
          "text": "At their point of origin, constructing these boxes presented railway companies with an attractive proposition: to remove the need for pointsmen and flagmen operating at several ground-level locations around a railway site by housing one or two men in a signal structure.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A man in charge of railroad points or switches."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "rail transport",
          "rail transport"
        ],
        [
          "man",
          "man"
        ],
        [
          "railroad",
          "railroad"
        ],
        [
          "point",
          "point"
        ],
        [
          "switch",
          "switch"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(rail transport) A man in charge of railroad points or switches."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "rail-transport",
        "railways",
        "transport"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "streločnik",
      "sense": "a man in charge of railroad points or switches",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "стрелочник"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "a man in charge of railroad points or switches",
      "word": "wisselwachter"
    },
    {
      "code": "izh",
      "lang": "Ingrian",
      "sense": "a man in charge of railroad points or switches",
      "word": "strelocnikka"
    },
    {
      "code": "mk",
      "lang": "Macedonian",
      "roman": "svŕtničar",
      "sense": "a man in charge of railroad points or switches",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "свр́тничар"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "a man in charge of railroad points or switches",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "zwrotniczy"
    },
    {
      "code": "pa",
      "lang": "Punjabi",
      "roman": "kāṇṭevālā",
      "sense": "a man in charge of railroad points or switches",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "ਕਾਂਟੇਵਾਲਾ"
    }
  ],
  "word": "pointsman"
}