n. a male person who plays a significant role (husband or lover or boyfriend) in the life of a particular woman; "she takes good care of her man"

n. an adult male person who has a manly character (virile and courageous competent); "the army will make a man of you"

n. the generic use of the word to refer to any human being; "it was every man for himself"

n. game equipment consisting of an object used in playing certain board games; "he taught me to set up the men on the chess board"; "he sacrificed a piece to get a strategic advantage"

n. an adult person who is male (as opposed to a woman); "there were two women and six men on the bus"

n. someone who serves in the armed forces; a member of a military force; "two men stood sentry duty"

n. a manservant who acts as a personal attendant to his employer; "Jeeves was Bertie Wooster's man"

n. all of the living human inhabitants of the earth; "all the world loves a lover"; "she always used `humankind' because `mankind' seemed to slight the women"

n. dependency belonging to the United Kingdom

v. take charge of a certain job; occupy a certain work place; "Mr. Smith manned the reception desk in the morning"

v. provide with men; "We cannot man all the desks"

adj. having services engaged for a fee; "hired hands"; "a hired gun"

n. a person's partner in marriage

n. a worker who is hired to perform a job

n. informal term for a friend of the same sex

n. (plural) any group of human beings (men or women or children) collectively; "old people"; "there were at least 200 people in the audience"

n. an assistant subject to the authority or control of another

n. a person working in the service of another (especially in the household)

n. an advocate who represents someone else's policy or purpose; "the meeting was attended by spokespersons for all the major organs of government"

n. a person who contributes to the fulfillment of a need or furtherance of an effort or purpose; "my invaluable assistant"; "they hired additional help to finish the work"

n. any agent or representative of a federal agency or bureau

n. a married man; a woman's partner in marriage

n. a person working in the service of another (especially in the household)

n. a female domestic

n. a servant who is paid to perform menial tasks around the household

n. a person who is present and participates in a meeting; "he was a regular attender at department meetings"; "the gathering satisfied both organizers and attendees"

n. someone who waits on or tends to or attends to the needs of another

n. a person who contributes to the fulfillment of a need or furtherance of an effort or purpose; "my invaluable assistant"; "they hired additional help to finish the work"

n. a man paid to drive a privately owned car

n. someone who cooks food

n. one having charge of buildings or grounds or animals

n. an attendant on an airplane

n. a social class comprising those who do manual labor or work for wages; "there is a shortage of skilled labor in this field"

n. the organic phenomenon that distinguishes living organisms from nonliving ones; "there is no life on the moon"

n. all phenomena that are not artificial

n. an extended social group having a distinctive cultural and economic organization

v. station (troops) in a fort or garrison

v. fill with people or supply with inhabitants; "people a room"; "The government wanted to populate the remote area of the country"

v. assign to a station

adj. (employed)

adj. (of facilities such as telephones or lavatories) unavailable for use by anyone else or indicating unavailability; (`engaged' is a British term for a busy telephone line); "her line is busy"; "receptionists' telephones are always engaged"; "the lavatory is in use"; "kept getting a busy signal"

adj. actively engaged in paid work; "the working population"; "the ratio of working men to unemployed"; "a working mother"; "robots can be on the job day and night"

n. a female person who plays a significant role (wife or mistress or girlfriend) in the life of a particular man; "he was faithful to his woman"

n. an adult female person (as opposed to a man); "the woman kept house while the man hunted"

n. a polite name for any woman; "a nice lady at the library helped me"

n. a woman of refinement; "a chauffeur opened the door of the limousine for the grand lady"

n. a nonmilitary citizen