repairman

His dad, a caravan repairman, and his older brother ran half a mile and arrived just as Mark was being loaded into an ambulance.

From BBC ● Aug. 20, 2026

In a workshop in Old Havana, amid cracked walls and aging work tools, 54-year-old repairman Rogelio Valdivia describes himself as a bonafide "Fidelista."

From Barron's ● Aug. 11, 2026

Service stations remained scarce, but gasoline could be purchased at hardware stores, and every town had a tinkerer or two—often a bicycle repairman turned mechanic.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 21, 2026

“It’s not a good look,” a city repairman told me while fixing a sprinkler at Griffith Park Recreation Center, where the historic swimming pool is an empty tank, out of service since 2020.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 29, 2025

In his house, if something broke, his mother called a repairman to fix it—the stove, the washer, the disposal—or, for almost anything else, it was discarded and replaced.

From "Little Fires Everywhere" by Celeste Ng

Yau said fewer than five repairmen like him remain in Hong Kong practising this "barely profitable" umbrella trade.

From Barron's ● Dec. 27, 2025

Delo said Tomlinson brought repairmen into the area and at one point reached over her to make a phone call.

From New York Times ● Nov. 3, 2022

In an echo of her father’s “hunger strike” at the Hotel Nacional, Birgit refused to let in repairmen.

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 23, 2022

“The repairmen are working continuously without stopping until the end of the day and promise to fully restore energy supply in populated areas,” Bunechko said in a telephone interview.

From Washington Post ● Oct. 18, 2022

To fix a broken machine, which was forged out of cast iron at a foundry inside Camp 14, Shin and other repairmen had to haul it on their backs to a repair shop upstairs.

From "Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West" by Blaine Harden