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flag·man

 (flăg′mən)
n.
A man who is employed as a flagger.
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flagman

(ˈflæɡmən)
n, pl -men
a person who has charge of, carries, or signals with a flag, esp a railway employee
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flag•man

(ˈflæg mən)

n., pl. -men.
a person who signals with or carries a flag.
[1825–35]
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Traffic control cones, message boards and flagmen will help direct the flow of traffic.
The agency will also deploy 154 traffic enforcers while the Quezon City government will provide at least 100 flagmen at choke points along Commonwealth Avenue.
To guide the motorists, the MMDA will deploy 154 personnel while the local government of Quezon City will also deploy at least 100 flagmen along Commonwealth Avenue.
He stated that one regular U-turn would be introduced to ease movement and signages would be erected along the road, speed breakers, warning lights, as well as live and dummy flagmen to ensure minimum inconvenience during the period.
Volunteer flagmen, armed with a plastic whistle and piece of green cloth tied to a stick, regularly conduct traffic assistance for zigzag travellers.
Rory MacNeice, representing the jockeys, argued that the first two flagmen were so far from the inner chase track as to add nothing to the efforts to stop the race.
Another way in which ANGE is working to eliminate risk is by removing banksmen and flagmen from high-risk work environments, and instead investing in better visibility devices on equipment and training for the operators.
Flagmen, warning signs and speed reduction signs have appropriately been signposted, B2Gold said.
When use of flagmen was being proposed, the wage difference to the more expensive detail officer was in the range of $6 per hour.
White employers demanded that African American workers who continued to work as brakemen and flagmen, as they had during the war, accept lower wages for such skilled work than their white counterparts were paid.