English Dictionary

plumber

/ˈplʌmɚ/

noun

One who works in or with lead. / One who furnishes, fits, and repairs pipes and other apparatus for the conveyance of water, gas, or drainage. / One who installs piping for potable and waste water.

The plumber fixed the leaky pipe.

意味（1）

One who works in or with lead.

意味（2）

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

意味（3）

One who installs piping for potable and waste water.

意味（4）

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.”

意味（5）

(Britain, informal) 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.

意味（6）

(medicine, slang) A urologist.

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