Chapmanship
noun
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 The state, quality, condition, or role of a chapman (dealer, bargainer, tradesman). rare, uncountable
"In short, after a great deal of chapmanship, the haberdasher got the fiddle at forty guineas; and a happy man was he, thinking he had made ten guineas by the bargain."
Example
More examples"In short, after a great deal of chapmanship, the haberdasher got the fiddle at forty guineas; and a happy man was he, thinking he had made ten guineas by the bargain."
Etymology
From chapman + -ship. Compare German Kaufmannschaft, Dutch koopmanschap, Old Frisian kapenskip (West Frisian keapmanskip).
More for "chapmanship"
Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.