Tradesman
noun
noun ·Uncommon ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 A skilled manual worker (implied male).
- 2 a male merchant who owns or manages a shop wordnet
- 3 A manual worker (implied male) who visits private premises to perform his job. dated
"Tradesmen should use the rear entrance."
- 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."
Antonyms
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More examples"The tradesman promised to come the next day."
Etymology
From trade + -s- + -man.
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