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ferroviari

Ferroviari is an Italian term that most commonly functions as the masculine plural noun for people employed in the railway sector. It designates railway workers as a group, including train drivers, conductors, station staff, signaling and maintenance personnel. In Italian, ferroviari can also be the masculine plural form of the adjective ferroviario, meaning "related to railways"; feminine forms are ferroviaria (singular) and ferroviarie (plural).

Etymology and history: The word derives from ferrovia, the Italian term for railway, itself formed from ferro-

Contemporary usage: In modern Italian, ferroviari appears in references to workforce demographics, trade unions, collective bargaining,

See also: ferrovia, ferroviario, rail transport, railway workers.

"iron"
and
via
"way."
The
concept
and
the
noun
ferroviari
emerged
with
the
expansion
of
rail
transport
in
the
19th
century
and
have
continued
to
be
used
in
labor
history,
company
reporting,
and
discussions
of
rail
employment.
and
historical
accounts
of
railways.
It
can
be
used
descriptively
to
refer
to
the
profession
or
collectively
to
the
workers
who
operate
and
maintain
rail
services.