[
UK
/ɡɹˈaʊndzmən/
]
NOUN
- someone who maintains the grounds (of an estate or park or athletic field)
How To Use groundsman In A Sentence
- By the time he was a teenager in the 1950s, he was spending all his spare time at Recreation Park, cleaning boots, helping the groundsman, travelling to away games on the team bus.
- In any case, his scooter is still in the groundsman's shed. Times, Sunday Times
- He is particularly well placed, with a council groundsman, landscape gardener and golf greenkeeper on his playing staff.
- For the celestial groundsman's final touch, early daffodils are starting to gild the verges with a hint of yellow by Buttermere and Bassenthwaite. Country diary: Lake District
- Would it cost so much to employ a groundsman to keep the grass down and a few cleaners to give the place the once-over with a duster every now and then?
- To begin by noting that this exhibition includes a transcript of an interview the artist conducted with the head groundsman of Ellis Park stadium might suggest that it is a bit tedious.
- In both cases, turf maintenance is high on the agenda - and head groundsman Steve Tingley is already is Paris.
- The Hibs groundsman declared it unplayable, and the referee indicated during the warm-up that the match would be completed only if there was no more rain.
- A groundsman miraculously walked away unscathed from a cricket pavilion that was turned to rubble when a boiler exploded.
- A groundsman yesterday sweeps dew off the lawn at Oakland Hills Country Club, with the Ryder Cup standing at right.