workwoman

[ wurk-woo m-uh n ]

/ ˈwɜrkˌwʊm ən /

a female worker.

a woman employed or skilled in some manual, mechanical, or industrial work.

Origin of workwoman

First recorded in 1520–30; work + woman

See -woman.

Nabby was in her way and place a person worth making concessions to, for she was a workwoman not to be despised.

Poganuc People |Harriet Beecher Stowe
She, too, had the smile of good-fellowship—coin freely passed from workwoman to workwoman.

The Woman Who Toils |Mrs. John Van Vorst and Marie Van Vorst
In a couple of minutes I'll put on my hat with the flowers and leave my workwoman in charge here.

A Royal Prisoner |Pierre Souvestre
A workwoman, friends, she, no less than a princess; and princess most in being so.

Saint Ursula |John Ruskin

The "treachery" is all the greater if the objector is a workman or a workwoman.

With the "Die-Hards" in Siberia |John Ward