Antonyms for fisherman
ˈfɪʃ ər mənfish·er·man

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1. fishermannoun

   A person who attempts to catch fish.

   The fisherman cast his line.

   Synonyms:
   fisher, angler

2. fishermannoun

   A person whose profession is catching fish.

   He is a fisherman, out on a trawler for days at a time.

   Synonyms:
   fisher

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1. fisherman, fishernoun

   someone whose occupation is catching fish

   Synonyms:
   fisher, pekan, black cat, fisher cat

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1. fishermannoun

   Synonyms:
   fisher, piscator, angler

How to use fisherman in a sentence?

1. Karl Marx:

   In communist society, where nobody has one exclusive sphere of activity but each can become accomplished in any branch he wishes, society regulates the general production and thus makes it possible for me to do one thing today and another tomorrow, to hunt in the morning, fish in the afternoon, rear cattle in the evening, criticize after dinner, just as I have a mind, without ever becoming hunter, fisherman, shepherd or critic.

2. Lawyer Bradley Bondi:

   The court realized its fishy to use a financial fraud statute, carrying up to 20 years in prison, to prosecute a commercial fisherman who otherwise would have been subject at most to a civil crime and the temporary loss of his fishing license.

3. Special Police Officer Alan Byard:

   It’s out of control. We have people that are doing this – are breaking into cars in Nob Hill, then they go down to Fisherman’s Wharf, then they come out here. Then they go to another part of the city and the police can’t chase the cars, it’s considered a misdemeanor.

4. Dan Distel:

   In order to maintain accurate labeling, you have to track it from the fisherman, who is sometimes in remote locations or in the developing world. And then you track it through a variety of middlemen to the distributor, the store, to the high school kids stocking the shelves. There are a lot of places where things could go wrong.

5. Jerome K. Jerome:

   Some people are under the impression that all that is required to make a good fisherman is the ability to tell lies easily and without blushing; but this is a mistake. Mere bald fabrication is useless; the veriest tyro can manage that. It is in the circumstantial detail, the embellishing touches of probability, the general air of scrupulous -- almost of pedantic -- veracity, that the experienced angler is seen.

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