building trades
Americanplural noun
Etymology
Origin of building trades
First recorded in 1885–90
Example Sentences
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Many of the jobs and sectors boasting the highest pay growth now are in construction, the building trades, engineering and energy, according to payroll providers and pay-data businesses.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 10, 2026
That includes Liguori Academy, a high school that offers building trades training, and St. Francis de Sales, a Catholic elementary school.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 13, 2026
Five unions — including school clerical workers, plant and cafeteria managers, building trades and school police — settled their contracts previously.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 12, 2026
The building trades have been traditionally sort of conservative.
From Slate ● Apr. 26, 2025
The building trades are always busy in bad times, because money and labour are then cheap, and the opportunity is seized of building or extending factories, and laying down plant of every description.
From Contemporary Socialism by John Rae
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