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Definition of Trouble shooter
1. Noun. A worker whose job is to locate and fix sources of trouble (especially in mechanical devices).
Lexicographical Neighbors of Trouble Shooter
Literary usage of Trouble shooter
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature by H.W. Wilson Company (1914)
"Snowslide and trouble-shooter. G: F: Strat- ton and A. Chapman. 11. Tech. World.
20: 859-63. F. '14. Subway telephone from Boston to Washington. Tech. ..."
2. The Automobile Storage Battery: Its Care and Repair by American Bureau of Engineering, Chicago (1918)
"Use the AMBU trouble shooter. See Trouble Chart No. 10, page 177. ... For such
testing you should have an "AMBU" trouble shooter, which quickly and ..."
3. Judicial and Statutory Definitions of Words and Phrases by West Publishing Company (1914)
"TROUBLE trouble shooter A "trouble shooter" Is a person employed by a telephone
company to discover and repair minor troubles attending the telephone ..."
4. The Gas Record (1918)
"In Chicago She Is Taking the Place of the Customary Male "trouble shooter."
In Chicago the gas ''trouble shooter" has gone to war and the gas woman has come ..."
5. Aircraft Production: Hearings, Sixty-fifth Congress, Second Session (1918)
"By a " trouble-shooter," you mean a man that goes and fixes trouble if it is found ?
Mr. WILLIAMS. About the time to shut down he came to the man who was ..."
6. Principles of Business by Charles William Gerstenberg (1922)
"The "trouble-shooter" of the sales organization might well consider the analogy
between his own task and that of the automobile mechanic; for each part or ..."
7. Life in a Large Manufacturing Plant by Charles M. Ripley (1919)
"A trouble shooter is a valuable man in an engineering organization, be it a
telephone, lighting, or traction company, or a large industrial plant. ..."
8. Lawyers' Reports Annotated by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company (1915)
"425; —$3.500-—telephone "trouble shooter"— received heavy electric shock—burn to
bone on back of head, severe burns on bands and on the sole of one. foot, ..."
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