(n.) One whose occupation is to build with bricks.
Example Sentences:
(1) A n unemployed bricklayer sits with his Work Programme employment coach in Hull, watching as he types out a sample covering letter.
(2) His mother was a school dinner lady, and his father a bricklayer and stonemason.
(3) In July 2013, Amarildo de Souza, a bricklayer living in a Rio de Janeiro favela, was arrested by police in an operation to round up drug traffickers.
(4) Skills shortages were also seen as hampering growth and bricklayers have been especially scarce after housebuilding picked up on the back of the government's Help to Buy scheme.
(5) Like other builders who have warned of a shortage of bricks and bricklayers, Barratt said the increase in building across the industry had strained its supply chain.
(6) That follows a report last week of booming pay deals within the sector as companies struggle to attract bricklayers and other skilled workers.
(7) Friendship Alfredo Scappaticci, small, barrel-chested with classic Mediterranean olive skin and wiry black hair, was born to an Italian immigrant family in west Belfast in the late 1940s and became a bricklayer.
(8) Housebuilding activity still increased at a strong pace overall, but the sharp growth slowdown since this summer reflects greater caution towards new development projects amid tighter mortgage lending conditions and renewed uncertainties about the demand outlook.” Meanwhile, Persimmon, Britain’s biggest housebuilder by market value, said a shortage of workers with joinery and bricklaying skills was limiting the number of homes it could build.
(9) Persimmon has already taken on 100 former military personnel to train primarily in bricklaying, where the lack of skilled workers has reached a record high, according to the latest construction survey from the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors.
(10) I can’t get a permanent job,” says Nowrooz, an asylum seeker who works as a bricklayer in Sydney.
(11) Photograph: Africa ELI The private school is run by Wani Kenneth Evans, a South Sudanese engineer who started as a bricklayer at another school project, and progressed up the ranks.
(12) The warning comes after rival homebuilder Galliford Try said that good bricklayers could command salaries of £40,000 a year , as demand for new homes escalates.
(13) In 1950, after three years at the sharashka Solzhenitsyn was transferred to a special camp at Ekibastuz in northern Kazakhstan, where he worked for three more years, first as a bricklayer, and then as a brigade leader in the machine shop.
(14) In terms of skills, the ever-growing lack of bricklayers is causing concern.
(15) The material consists of a random sample of 85 painters, and as a non-exposed control group of 85 bricklayers, selected in the same way.
(16) Low male prevalence of inflammatory bowel disease was found among bricklayers, road construction workers, unskilled workers in brick and stone, unskilled labourers, and security personnel.
(17) The FMB’s services director, Steve Laurence, who drew up the scheme, said the first cohort would learn the basics of “all the biblical trades” in one year – bricklaying, joinery, roofing, floorlaying, plastering and painting – and gain an NVQ level 2 qualification, with the opportunity to specialise after.
(18) Figures in September showed the number of out-of-work bricklayers was the lowest in a decade .
(19) The latent period of several decades for the development of silicosis is such that it may well be feared that the cases now reported are only the beginning of increased occurrence of the disease in coming years among particularly exposed concrete workers, bricklayers, unskilled workers, electricians, joiners and carpenters.
(20) A study was made of work conditions suspected of being responsible for a greater prevalence of musculoskeletal disorders among 33 bricklayers.
Craftsman
Definition:
(n.) One skilled in some trade or manual occupation; an artificer; a mechanic.
Example Sentences:
(1) Dexter was a consummate theatrical craftsman and Lindsay was, in one form, a sort of poetic director.
(2) Isaiah 41:7 even manages to (sort of) cover two Premiership clubs: "The craftsman encourages the goldsmith, and he who smooths with the hammer spurs on him who strikes the anvil."
(3) With the enthusiasm of a master craftsman, Bobbitt explains how it was constructed.
(4) He makes his living as a master craftsman of scene and setting, for him to claim now that he wasn’t perfectly aware that his message was precisely ‘cops are murderers’ is ludicrous,” said Johnson.
(5) This is, of course, only once you have finished lapping up the exhaustive travel guides: 48 Hours In Venice implores you to "discover hidden gems and craftsman [sic]" in between aperitifs, which presumably you'll be much in need of after all that work layering statement necklaces.
(6) One local craftsman suggests that Erdogan's style of governing has become untenable for the country: "In Turkey , we now have the situation that one half of the country loves the prime minister unconditionally whereas the other half not only does not vote for him, but truly hates him.
(7) He was, and I'm sure still is, a proper craftsman.
(8) She has termed SF “a crazy, protean, left-handed monkey wrench”, a fictional tool that “can be put to any use the craftsman has in mind – satire, extrapolation, prediction, absurdity, exactitude, exaggeration, warning, message-carrying, tale-telling, whatever you like”.
(9) Stromayr, a master craftsman, also expresses his hostility to the shams and ignorance of the charlatan eye surgeons of his day.
(10) Isaiah 41:7 even manages to (sort of) cover two Premier League clubs: "The craftsman encourages the goldsmith, and he who smooths with the hammer spurs on him who strikes the anvil."
(11) In the course of history of anatomy the prosector (dissector, incisor, secant, sculptor, procurator) held total different positions: at first he acted as a manual craftsman (barber surgeon) and as teacher's assistant lacking any academic education (organized in fraternities or guilds).
(12) For everything it can mean this year, he is the songwriter to beat, a waltz-loving, George Harrison-quoting, profane craftsman who gets fan letters from Courtney Love and still beats up on himself.
(13) It is an amazing work of art which was built by a craftsman in Richmond.
(14) Months later, the painstaking removal of layers of paint and wallpaper revealed that an entire wall at the artist and craftsman's first married home was painted by his young friends who would become world-famous pre-Raphaelite artists.
(15) While the Dutch were selling single tulip bulbs for 10 times a craftsman's annual income, the British were panicking about their own economic crisis.
(16) On this basis, a more phenomenological view of alcoholism and alcoholism treatment is suggested as a way out of the schism between the craftsman and the professional, both of whom operate from within a linear, cause-effect mode of thinking.
(17) Occupations with at least twofold excess of mesotheliomas included the craftsman categories of plumbers, mechanics and repairmen, electricians, painters, tire makers, and stationary equipment operators.
(18) The patient, a home craftsman, acquired his infection from imported animal-origin yarn.
(19) As the craftsman returned, the diva made an understated exit.
(20) So within the strictures and confines of this very formal piece we detect a human presence, the Gawain poet, a disciplined craftsman who also liked to run risks and take liberties.