tradespeople
plural noun
those persons who are engaged in trade; tradesmen.
tradesfolk
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a variation of
tradespeople.
Example Sentences
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They can also watch tradesfolk in the Artisan Marketplace.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 2, 2020
Their clients were mostly tradesfolk in the horology business, for whom aligning their wares with Greenwich was a matter of professional pride.
From BBC ● Apr. 2, 2017
The housewives and tradesfolk pass on their daily errands along the streets spanned by two noble arches which date from the days of the emperor Galienus.
From Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 20, August 1877 by Various
All our work whether we are poets, thinkers, fighters, craftsmen, servants, tradesfolk, teachers, must be only partly in what we do directly.
From Our Catholic Heritage in English Literature of Pre-Conquest Days by Emily Hickey
Besides the tradesfolk, there is good Mrs. Ridley and Mr. Sherrick—we must see them; and, if we can, set this luckless Charles again on his legs.
From The Newcomes Memoirs of a Most Respectable Family by William Makepeace Thackeray
