tradesman
Americannoun
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a person engaged in trade.
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a worker skilled in a particular craft; artisan; craftsman.
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Chiefly British. a shopkeeper.
noun
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a man engaged in trade, esp a retail dealer
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a skilled worker
Gender
See -man.
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Tradesman, it turns out, has been in the business since 2014, but moved to The Neck recently from James Island, a southern suburb.
From New York Times • Apr. 25, 2018
On the 17th green Tradesman Trimingham won, two up and one to go.
From Time Magazine Archive
"Remember that time is money," Benjamin Franklin wrote in his Advice to a Young Tradesman in 1748.
From Time Magazine Archive
For a Tradesman to be heard vivâ voce, upon the Subject of a large Debt of a long standing, 0 10 6 For a poor Clergyman supplicating a Chaplainship, or any other Ecclesiastical Preferment.
From The Tricks of the Town: or, Ways and Means of getting Money by Thomson, John, fl. 1732
First Passenger, apparently a small Suburban Tradesman, of a full and comfortable habit, seated by window.
From Mr. Punch's Railway Book by Hammerton, John Alexander, Sir
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