Tradesman

noun

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A skilled manual worker (implied male).
  2. 2
    a male merchant who owns or manages a shop wordnet
  3. 3
    A manual worker (implied male) who visits private premises to perform his job. dated

    "Tradesmen should use the rear entrance."

  4. 4
    One who works in trade (commerce); a shopkeeper. dated

    "After this memorable event, I went to the hatter's, and the bootmaker's, and the hosier's, and felt rather like Mother Hubbard's dog whose outfit required the services of so many trades. […] It was not necessary to explain everywhere that I had come into a handsome property; but whenever I said anything to that effect, it followed that the officiating tradesman ceased to have his attention diverted through the window by the High-street, and concentrated his mind upon me."

Etymology

From trade + -s- + -man.

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