"railman" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From rail + -man.",
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      "form": "railmen",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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          "name": "Rail transportation",
          "orig": "en:Rail transportation",
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            "Transport",
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            "Fundamental"
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2022 September 7, “Stop & Examine”, in RAIL, number 965, page 71:",
          "text": "\"The railman on the platform, whom I knew well, looked a bit bemused and asked what I was doing. Thinking it a silly question, I said something along the lines of 'what do you think? I'm going home to bed'.\n\"He then said 'but you don't live here anymore'.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2023 March 22, Mike Esbester, “Staff, the public and industry will suffer”, in RAIL, number 979, page 38:",
          "text": "There was also a belief that they had been taken advantage of - \"kicked from pillar to post, the bottom dogs in the labour market because of the inherent love of railmen for their jobs\", according to one NUR member.",
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        }
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      "glosses": [
        "A man who works on a railway."
      ],
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          "man",
          "man"
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          "railway",
          "railway"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "railwayman"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "railman"
}

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    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From rail + -man.",
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      "form": "railmen",
      "tags": [
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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        "en:Occupations",
        "en:Rail transportation"
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          "ref": "2022 September 7, “Stop & Examine”, in RAIL, number 965, page 71:",
          "text": "\"The railman on the platform, whom I knew well, looked a bit bemused and asked what I was doing. Thinking it a silly question, I said something along the lines of 'what do you think? I'm going home to bed'.\n\"He then said 'but you don't live here anymore'.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2023 March 22, Mike Esbester, “Staff, the public and industry will suffer”, in RAIL, number 979, page 38:",
          "text": "There was also a belief that they had been taken advantage of - \"kicked from pillar to post, the bottom dogs in the labour market because of the inherent love of railmen for their jobs\", according to one NUR member.",
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        "A man who works on a railway."
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  "word": "railman"
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