keyman
An employee of vital importance to a business.
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(India) A workman who checks a railway track for faults, and who carries a keying hammer.
: 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
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(dated) A telegraph operator.
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An employee of vital importance to a business.
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