What's the difference between handyman and janitor?

Handyman


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) An offer of help from handyman service The_Multiman – "#riotcleanup if you have a shop or home that has been affected my handymen will volunteer in our spare time to help with any repairs!
  • (2) But there are also smaller changes, which cost the local authority little but can have a big impact in terms of how secure care leavers feel, such as a visit from a handyman when they move into their own home, to help them put up curtain poles and other such tasks – typically the role of a parent.
  • (3) In May an Israeli employment court awarded compensation to a former handyman in the prime minister’s home, accepting the worker’s claims of abusive terms of employment by Sara Netanyahu.
  • (4) His gift of writing supple, salty dialogue for working-class characters was similarly displayed in Oh No, It's Selwyn Froggitt (1976-77), a series developed from his own single play and starring Bill Maynard as the inept handyman with the thumbs-up catchphrase "Magic!"
  • (5) Sidney Poitier blazed a trail in the 60s for Lilies of the Field , winning best actor for his role as a handyman helping a group of nuns build a chapel in the desert.
  • (6) He now works as a handyman for the council, and his wife, Omkeltoum, is expecting another child.
  • (7) Angel Figueroa, 46, a Guatemalan former handyman, boasted of knowing Los Angeles “like the palm of my hand” but feared he would never see it or his children again.
  • (8) Thoreau was 27 when he took up residence in the cabin by Walden Pond; he had graduated from Harvard 19th in his class, tried teaching, helped his father in the family pencil business, did local odd jobs for a dollar a day, lived with the Emersons for two years as handyman and gardener, left Long Island after a brief spell of tutoring and testing the literary market, and, despite Emerson's sponsorship and a few poems and essays in the Transcendentalist quarterly The Dial, had made no mark.
  • (9) Services offered include housekeeping, transportation, yard care, and handyman services.
  • (10) On leaving school he took a job as a handyman in a London hotel, spending his evenings in the House of Commons watching late-night debates from the public gallery.
  • (11) Casey Affleck won best actor for his portray of a grieving handyman in Manchester by the Sea, seeing off Denzel Washington, who had been tipped for a third Oscar for Fences.
  • (12) Duque now works as a handyman and his wife assists him.
  • (13) My plan was to live in a bread delivery van that I’d converted and offer people handyman services in return for payment in kind.
  • (14) Carlos, a self-employed handyman, reacted to his son's death by setting fire to himself inside a van, suffering severe burns.
  • (15) Kelly Frank, who worked as a handyman on the ranch, was convicted and sentenced to 10 years in jail.

Janitor


Definition:

  • (n.) A door-keeper; a porter; one who has the care of a public building, or a building occupied for offices, suites of rooms, etc.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) When occupations were examined individually, motor vehicle operators, truck drivers, vehicle mechanics, other mechanics, and janitors were among those most likely to be diagnosed with high-grade or late-stage tumors.
  • (2) Raymond Bravo, 36, from San Pablo, California, who earned $10.25 an hour as a janitor for a Walmart's Richmond Hilltop Mall store in California, working 30 hours a week, said he was fired from his job after taking part in the strikes and demonstrations in June.
  • (3) He was magnificent as the mouldy old white-haired janitor, master of the mop and bucket, supervising an invisible gathering to hear the very last message for humanity.
  • (4) If he was a cartoon character, he’d be … Penry, the mild mannered janitor .
  • (5) Men employed as janitors and in other building service occupations showed increased relative risk for aggressive tumors (OR = 7.0, CI = 2.5-19.6).
  • (6) In domestic politics, Gingrich has advocated getting rid of child labour laws so that poor children can work as janitors in their schools.
  • (7) He plays the part of Ben, a young janitor from El Salvador who is committed to the union.
  • (8) The role of selective transfer of sick individuals (into, say janitoring or trucking) warrants further investigation.
  • (9) Another of the three, Rene Gagnon, died of a heart attack at 54, frustrated that his faded celebrity translated ultimately into no more than work as a janitor.
  • (10) Soon afterwards Laverty was listening to LA's left-wing radio station, KPFK, and heard that an organisation called Justice for Janitors, which represents the people who hoover the corporate carpet and scrub its toilet bowl, was holding a meeting.
  • (11) It’s harder when things get thrown at your family but that’s become the reality of 21st-century politics.” She recalls her own journey, from janitor’s daughter to Harvard academic to senator, thanks to opportunities she believes were lost to today’s children when Washington decided it was more important to give tax breaks to billionaires and giant corporations.
  • (12) Not long after the shoot finished, the janitors were on the streets of LA for real, striking and campaigning for a wage increase.
  • (13) Loach had hoped to release Bread and Roses at the height of the janitors' dispute last year but the release date was set.
  • (14) Beatty’s family has lived that history: her mother was born outside Birmingham, Alabama, and her father in New Orleans; they ultimately met in New York, where he was working as a janitor.
  • (15) Elevated maternal age-adjusted relative risks of Down syndrome were found for fathers employed as janitors (odds ratio [OR] = 3.26; 95% confidence interval [C.I.]
  • (16) I want to be a janitor in the new casino,” she said, “or maybe hand out sodas.” Elizabeth Amidon was one of a few people in line who did know exactly what she wanted to do.
  • (17) They also embody income inequality, earning significantly higher salaries than the people who share their workplaces as shuttle drivers, security guards, and janitors.
  • (18) It also might hold memories for Barack Obama and Robert Redford: the president visited the bar in 2012 and ordered a pizza, now designated the Potus pie; the actor pushed a mop as a Sink janitor in his early years.
  • (19) In addition to standard college newspaper fare – an essay about town-gown relations in which Miller details the “ condescension ” inherent in giving a janitor a birthday card – Miller’s 25 columns, written between September 2005 and April 2007, frequently touch on hot-button issues.
  • (20) Obama talked of giving "a fair shot" to black janitors, white steelworkers, immigrant dishwashers and Native American veterans.