tradesman
English
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Noun
[edit]tradesman (plural tradesmen)
- A skilled manual worker (implied male).
- (dated) A manual worker (implied male) who visits private premises to perform his job.
- Tradesmen should use the rear entrance.
- (dated) One who works in trade (commerce); a shopkeeper.
- 1861, Charles Dickens, Great Expectations:
- 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.
- 1932, Dorothy L. Sayers, chapter II, in Have His Carcase:
- During the morning she had seen several people and quite a number (comparatively) of tradesmen’s vans.
Antonyms
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[edit]- skilled worker
- tradesperson
- (Australia, colloquial) tradie
Derived terms
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[edit]skilled male manual worker
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