tradesman
Americannoun
plural
tradesmen-
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.
Other Word Forms
Etymology
Origin of tradesman
Example Sentences
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“Literature nowadays is a trade,” Milvain insists: Putting aside men of genius, who may succeed by mere cosmic force, your successful man of letters is your skillful tradesman.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 14, 2025
Fifteen years later, the tradesman stood outside Crane’s old spray booth, sanding a $25,000 rosewood bench.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 16, 2025
The first name on the concealed letter was that of John Westwood, a 28-year-old millwright - a tradesman who works with machinery - from Edinburgh.
From BBC • Nov. 30, 2024
The first—the shark—comes from Steven Spielberg’s 1975 blockbuster Jaws, in which a sheriff, a scientist, and a tradesman roll up their sleeves and put themselves in harm’s way to defeat a ferocious great white.
From Slate • Oct. 29, 2024
“Yes; he did not stay many minutes in the house: Missis was very high with him; she called him afterwards a ‘sneaking tradesman.’
From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë
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