tradesman

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tradesman

noun tradesmen

  1. A skilled manual worker (implied male).
  2. dated A manual worker (implied male) who visits private premises to perform his job. Tradesmen should use the rear entrance.
  3. dated One who works in trade (commerce); a shopkeeper. After this memorable event, I went to the hatter's, and the bootmaker's, and the hosier's, and felt rather like Mother Hubbard's dog whose outfit required the services of so many trades. […] It was not necessary to explain everywhere that I had come into a handsome property; but whenever I said anyt

Opposite: tradeswoman

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noun skilled male manual worker

Españolmenestral, maistro
Françaisartisan
DeutschHandwerker, Facharbeiter, gelernter Arbeiter
Русскиймастерово́й masterovój, реме́сленник reméslennik, ма́стер máster

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@misc{tradesman_2026,
  title = {tradesman},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/tradesman},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}