What's the difference between dustman and dustmen?
Dustman
Definition:
(p.) One whose employment is to remove dirt and defuse.
Example Sentences:
(1) said the dustman, scooping up discarded election posters, wine and whisky bottles, beer cans and other rubbish.
(2) The following year he sold over a million records in Britain alone, with another novelty song, My Old Man's A Dustman, a re-write of a Liverpool folk tune and first world war marching song, up-dated with cockney jokes and lyrics, which topped the charts for four weeks.
(3) In two cases, indoor contamination must be suspected; in the third case, transmission has been facilitated by insalubrity and crowding; the fourth case was related to the activities of a dustman in camping sites.
(4) 'What was hers was mine and what was mine was my own' Bill, 71, is a retired dustman and construction worker.
(5) We should be forced to give so many exceptions and concessions (inevitably to the benefit of high spending authorities in inner London) that the flat-rate poll tax would rapidly become a surrogate income tax.” On 30 September 1985, Hurd tackled the problems of collection and enforcement of a local government tax that was to be widely attacked as making a ‘duke pay the same as a dustman’.
(6) Adrian Mole, throwing down litter with the excuse that it keeps his uncle the dustman in work, reflects the attitude of many offenders I work with – they think that we, the support providers, need them to have problems in order to keep our jobs.
(7) Dustman and Frattini say it is misleading to use the £118bn figure as the Telegraph and Mail have done.
Dustmen
Definition:
(pl. ) of Dustman
Example Sentences:
(1) In 1968 the policemen went on a "sick-out", and the teachers and dustmen were on strike.
(2) The concepts regarding sexually transmitted diseases (STD) of 41 (63.07%) dustmen of a country town in S. Paulo State, Brazil, are presented in order to provide support for the preparation of health education programmes on STD for this and similar populational groups.
(3) During their Work, Dustmen are exposed to important and various microbiological Aerosols, which, according to the Granulometry, could have an Influence on the Start and the Progress of chronic Bronchitis.
(4) Mrs Thatcher’s chief information officer, Rupert Murdoch, was telling us that the firemen and the dustmen were our enemies.
(5) Other street cleaners are self-employed: street sweepers who move round after the dustmen work for tips from local residents, and bottle collectors make a living – just about – by selling on plastic bottles for recycling.
(6) A high incidence of Q fever was established in dustmen (61.40%), sweepers (46.55%) and drivers of dust cars (38.00%), i.e.
(7) The authors have examined Hepatitis A and B virus infection risk in 93 dustmen and sewer workers.