tradeswoman

[ treydz-woom-uhn ]

noun

, plural trades·wom·en.

1. a woman engaged in trade.

Gender Note

See -woman.

Word History and Origins

Origin of tradeswoman¹

First recorded in 1700–10; trade + 's ¹ + -woman

Example Sentences

Sibanda became a street vendor and tradeswoman when her wages as a teacher were insufficient to support her.

From Time

But his parents gave the governor a rich present, so he fastened on the son of the tradeswoman, Panteleyeva.

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Dick Amlet, the son of Mrs. Amlet, a rich, vulgar tradeswoman.

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For the second time that day she, the rising and successful tradeswoman, had been defied by poor folk.

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I don't know what would have come to her had she been told she was a tradeswoman!

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She was a rich tradeswoman, about thirty years of age: she had beheld her husband and children die of the plague.

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