plumber

Các nghĩa

1. thợ sửa ống nước

   One who furnishes, fits, and repairs pipes and other apparatus for the conveyance of water, gas, or drainage.

   Mario and Luigi's profession is plumbers.

2. người điều tra rò rỉ thông tin

   A person who investigates or prevents leaks of information.

   It involved the break-in of the office of Mr. Lewis Fielding, Daniel Ellsberg's psychiatrist, by the White House “plumbers.”

3. học viên kỹ thuật Hải quân Hoàng gia

   In the Royal Navy, an apprentice, a boy aged 16 to 18, who is trained in technical skills at the Dockyard Schools to become an artificer.

   uk · informal

4. bác sĩ tiết niệu

   A urologist.

   derogatory · slang

   […] began the month with an operation at St. Joseph Hospital in Aurora, Ill. His surgeon, by the way, was a "plumber” – urologist.

   Within surgery, the "cleaner" specialties, such as cardiac and neurosurgery, outrank the plumbers (urologists) and proctologists.

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