serviceman
noun
ser·vice·man
ˈsər-vəs-ˌman 
-mən
1
: a male member of the armed forces
2
: a man employed to repair or maintain equipment
3
: a gas station attendant
Synonyms
Examples of serviceman in a Sentence
wishing our servicemen overseas the best of luck
Recent Examples on the Web
The Tillmans, dual nationals born to a German mother and U.S. serviceman father in Nuremberg, Germany, played for both the German and U.S. youth national teams growing up.
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Kevin Baxter, Los Angeles Times, 20 May 2024
Dozens of Air Force members came together at a suburban Atlanta church Friday with the family and friends of Senior Airman Roger Fortson to honor the serviceman, who was shot and killed in his Florida home by a sheriff’s deputy on May 3.
—Tesfaye Negussie, ABC News, 17 May 2024
Harry was in the African nation to promote his Invictus Games for wounded servicemen and women.
—Martha Ross, The Mercury News, 14 May 2024
About 9,000 servicemen marched through the Red Square as snow fell, compared with about 8,000 in 2023.
—Anatoly Kurmanaev Nanna Heitmann, New York Times, 9 May 2024
While Russia has around 1.15 million servicemen — amounting to almost the entire population of neighboring Estonia — France has only 200,000.
—Ania Nussbaum, Fortune Europe, 16 Apr. 2024
The drone was prepared by a Ukrainian serviceman of the Rarog UAV squadron of the 24th Separate Mechanized Brigade.
—IEEE Spectrum, 10 Apr. 2024
Soldiers warn against ‘power vacuum’ CNN spoke by phone with more than half a dozen servicemen, most fighting in the east, in some of the most active parts of the ground war.
—Andrew Carey, Olga Voitovych, and Svitlana Vlasova, CNN, 31 Mar. 2024
Related article Russia’s sheer mass proves too much for Ukraine in Avdiivka
The Ukrainian servicemen there were part of the 110th Separate Mechanized Brigade, occupying a position known as Zenit.
—Tim Lister, CNN, 19 Feb. 2024
Kevin Baxter, Los Angeles Times, 20 May 2024
Dozens of Air Force members came together at a suburban Atlanta church Friday with the family and friends of Senior Airman Roger Fortson to honor the serviceman, who was shot and killed in his Florida home by a sheriff’s deputy on May 3.
—Tesfaye Negussie, ABC News, 17 May 2024
Harry was in the African nation to promote his Invictus Games for wounded servicemen and women.
—Martha Ross, The Mercury News, 14 May 2024
About 9,000 servicemen marched through the Red Square as snow fell, compared with about 8,000 in 2023.
—Anatoly Kurmanaev Nanna Heitmann, New York Times, 9 May 2024
While Russia has around 1.15 million servicemen — amounting to almost the entire population of neighboring Estonia — France has only 200,000.
—Ania Nussbaum, Fortune Europe, 16 Apr. 2024
The drone was prepared by a Ukrainian serviceman of the Rarog UAV squadron of the 24th Separate Mechanized Brigade.
—IEEE Spectrum, 10 Apr. 2024
Soldiers warn against ‘power vacuum’ CNN spoke by phone with more than half a dozen servicemen, most fighting in the east, in some of the most active parts of the ground war.
—Andrew Carey, Olga Voitovych, and Svitlana Vlasova, CNN, 31 Mar. 2024
Related article Russia’s sheer mass proves too much for Ukraine in Avdiivka
The Ukrainian servicemen there were part of the 110th Separate Mechanized Brigade, occupying a position known as Zenit.
—Tim Lister, CNN, 19 Feb. 2024
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“Serviceman.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/serviceman. Accessed 28 May. 2024.
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serviceman
noun
ser·vice·man
ˈsər-və-ˌsman
-smən
: a member of the armed forces
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