Keyman
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Keyman is a noun meaning (India) A workman who checks a railway track for faults, and who carries a keying hammer.
Meaning
(India) A workman who checks a railway track for faults, and who carries a keying hammer.
More Meanings
- An employee of vital importance to a business.
- (dated) A telegraph operator.
Example Sentences
A corporation may feel the need for life insurance on one of its keymen under a variety of circumstances.
As the keymen learn how to handle confidential company information, the owner-manager can disclose more to them. In most very small firms, the keymen will be "working" bosses.
Conscious of their importance, the 324 labor delegates marched bravely in and elected by acclaim as their president a onetime Ontario telegraph keyman, Senator Gideon Decker Robertson […]
Word Forms
- keymen
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include telegrapher, telegraphist, keyboarder, keystroker, keyer, keymaster.
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