steamfitter
noun
steam·fit·ter
ˈstēm-ˌfi-tər 
: one that installs or repairs equipment (such as steam pipes) for heating, ventilating, or refrigerating systems
steam fitting
noun
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Knowing Nelson will have to sneak the toxin through the pipes or HVAC, Red volunteers to reach out to the plumbers and steamfitter's union.
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Tanya Melendez, EW.com, 1 May 2023
Her mother, Catherine (Jones) McGuiness, taught elementary school, and her father, Edward, was a steamfitter.
—Neil Genzlinger, BostonGlobe.com, 20 Aug. 2022
White, a former steamfitter who went on to make millions of dollars as the owner of an HVAC company, has already dropped $4 million of his own money into the race, according to a campaign official.
—Teny Sahakian, Fox News, 26 Feb. 2022
O’Donnell grew up in Danbury and turned his natural mechanical skills into a career as a union steamfitter, impressing his colleagues, families and friends with his confidence and charisma, according to his obituary.
—Zach Murdock, courant.com, 19 Nov. 2020
Vernon Hamilton Walker, son of Robert Hamilton Walker, a steamfitter, and his wife, Doris Wagner Walker Clements, a bookkeeper, was born in Baltimore and raised in Catonsville.
—Frederick N. Rasmussen, baltimoresun.com, 28 Sep. 2020
His neighbors included a bus driver, a police officer and a steamfitter.
—Joseph Barbato, Washington Post, 14 Aug. 2020
The event took place at a plumbers-and-steamfitters union hall, in a stuffy room crammed with coalition members, the general public, campaign staff, and press.
—Eric Lach, The New Yorker, 13 Aug. 2019
Federal data indicates plumbers, pipefitters, and steamfitters have a median pay of about $52,590.
—Roy Berendsohn, Popular Mechanics, 13 Mar. 2019
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Tanya Melendez, EW.com, 1 May 2023
Her mother, Catherine (Jones) McGuiness, taught elementary school, and her father, Edward, was a steamfitter.
—Neil Genzlinger, BostonGlobe.com, 20 Aug. 2022
White, a former steamfitter who went on to make millions of dollars as the owner of an HVAC company, has already dropped $4 million of his own money into the race, according to a campaign official.
—Teny Sahakian, Fox News, 26 Feb. 2022
O’Donnell grew up in Danbury and turned his natural mechanical skills into a career as a union steamfitter, impressing his colleagues, families and friends with his confidence and charisma, according to his obituary.
—Zach Murdock, courant.com, 19 Nov. 2020
Vernon Hamilton Walker, son of Robert Hamilton Walker, a steamfitter, and his wife, Doris Wagner Walker Clements, a bookkeeper, was born in Baltimore and raised in Catonsville.
—Frederick N. Rasmussen, baltimoresun.com, 28 Sep. 2020
His neighbors included a bus driver, a police officer and a steamfitter.
—Joseph Barbato, Washington Post, 14 Aug. 2020
The event took place at a plumbers-and-steamfitters union hall, in a stuffy room crammed with coalition members, the general public, campaign staff, and press.
—Eric Lach, The New Yorker, 13 Aug. 2019
Federal data indicates plumbers, pipefitters, and steamfitters have a median pay of about $52,590.
—Roy Berendsohn, Popular Mechanics, 13 Mar. 2019
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