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This dip did not, however, remove plumbers from the top echelon of wage-earners.

For instance, the concept of water is viewed dierently by a thirsty person, a plumber, a chemist, and a painter.

A good farmer (pianist, husband, acrobat, plumber, etc.) does not ex officio eliminate all the evils he can.

Over the next few minutes, cleaning personnel, waiters with trays of food, a manicurist, a plumber, and others enter the cabin.

Electricians, plumbers and steam engineers pursue their respective trades under license.

For carters and plumbers, as for lawyers, annual stipends are best regarded as retaining fees to ensure adequate service when it was required.

Even steamfitters, electricians and plumbers are required to have licenses.

As many readers will appreciate, plumbing was once an unfashionable trade but now the plumbers are more valuable than interior decorators.

The third category includes most of the skilled artisans, such as bakers, blacksmiths, carpenters, mechanics, plumbers, and tailors as well as skilled factory workers, policemen, and bookkeepers.

In the course of the meeting, the management finally agreed to bring in a plumber, and both problems (flooded restrooms and paper on the floor) were eventually resolved.

The first is more like 'craftsmanship' - carpenters, plumbers, etc., are handverkare.

Whilst an operations manual is used as a reference, the main source of operational information is transferred informally between plumbers at season hand-over.

Occupational classifications do not differentiate between plumbers and gas fitters—they are grouped together within the classification for plumbers, heating and ventilating engineers.

He may be a plumber, electrician, or fireman who goes window cleaning, gardening, cleaning a car or mending a television set.

There are no fewer than 1,786 men connected with the building industry employed there—electricians, joiners, builders, plumbers, and the rest.

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