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Definitions for tradesman
ˈtreɪdz məntrades·man

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. shopkeeper, tradesman, storekeeper, market keepernoun

    a merchant who owns or manages a shop

Wiktionary

  1. tradesmannoun

    A skilled manual worker (implied male).

  2. tradesmannoun

    One who trades; a shopkeeper.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Tradesmannoun

    A shopkeeper. A merchant is called a trader, but not a tradesman; and it seems distinguished in William Shakespeare from a man that labours with his hands.

    Etymology: trade and man.

    I live by the awl, I meddle with no tradesmen ’s matters. William Shakespeare.

    They rather had beheld
    Dissentious numbers pest’ring streets; than see
    Our tradesmen singing in their shops, and going
    About their functions. William Shakespeare, Coriolanus.

    Order a trade thither and thence so as some few merchants and tradesmen, under colour of furnishing the colony with necessaries, may not grind them. Francis Bacon.

    Tradesmen might conjecture what doings they were like to have in their respective dealings. John Graunt.

    M. Jordain would not be thought a tradesman, but ordered some silk to be measured out to his partner’s friends: now I give up my shop. Matthew Prior.

    From a plain tradesman with a shop, he is now grown a very rich country gentleman. John Arbuthnot, Hist. of J. Bull.

    Domesticks in a gentleman’s family have more opportunities of improving their minds, than the ordinary tradesmen. Jonathan Swift.

    Boastful and rough, your first son is a squire;
    The next a tradesman, meek and much a liar. Alexander Pope, Ep.

Wikipedia

  1. Tradesman

    A tradesman, tradeswoman, or tradesperson is a skilled worker that specializes in a particular trade (occupation or field of work). Tradesmen usually have work experience, on-the-job training, and often formal vocational education in contrast to an apprentice, who is learning the trade. As opposed to a craftsman or an artisan, the occupation of a tradesman is not necessarily restricted to manual work.

ChatGPT

  1. tradesman

    A tradesman is a skilled worker who specializes in a particular occupation/field that requires manual skills, technical abilities, and specific training. This can include professions such as carpenter, electrician, plumber, mechanic, artisan, among others. They often offer their services for hire and some may run their own small businesses.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Tradesmannoun

    one who trades; a shopkeeper

  2. Tradesmannoun

    a mechanic or artificer; esp., one whose livelihood depends upon the labor of his hands

Wikidata

  1. Tradesman

    A tradesman or tradesperson is a skilled manual worker in a particular trade or craft. Economically and socially, a tradesman's/tradesperson's status is considered between a laborer and a professional, with a high degree of both practical and theoretical knowledge of his or her trade. In cultures where professional careers are highly prized there can be a shortage of skilled manual workers, leading to lucrative niche markets in the trades. The training of a trade in European cultures has been a formal tradition for many centuries. A tradesman/tradesperson typically begins as an apprentice, working for and learning from a Master, and after a number of years is released from his or her master's service as a Journeyman. After a Journeyman/Journeyperson has proven himself to his or her trade's guild, she or he may settle down as a Master and work for herself/himself, eventually taking on her/his own apprentices. Since the 20th Century, this process has been changed in many ways. A tradesman/tradesperson still begins as an apprentice, but the apprenticeship is carried out partly through working for a tradesperson/tradesman and partly through an accredited trade school for a definite period of time, after which he/she is fully qualified. Starting one's own business is purely a financial matter, rather than being dependent on status. Few trades still make a distinction between a qualified tradesman/tradesperson and a master.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of tradesman in Chaldean Numerology is: 2

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of tradesman in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5

Examples of tradesman in a Sentence

  1. George Matter:

    We think that the treasure might have belonged to a tradesman or a landowner who lived in the area and put his savings aside for years. And for whatever reason he hid them in this hideout.

  2. Oscar Wilde:

    The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing. Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands.

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