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tradesman

tradesman noun: a skilled manual worker (implied male).

Noun

tradesman (plural 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...1861, Charles Dickens, Great Expectations
    • During the morning she had seen several people and quite a number (comparatively) of tradesmen’s vans.1932, Dorothy L. Sayers, chapter II, in Have His Carcase

tradesman meaning in Urdu, Malayalam and Kannada

tradesman in Urdu

تاجر

tradesman in Malayalam

പീടികക്കാരൻ, കമ്പോളവ്യാപാരി, മേസ്തിരി

tradesman in Kannada

ಅಂಗಡಿಗಾರ, ಕಸಬುದಾರ, ಕುಶಲಕರ್ಮಿ

Examples of tradesman in a sentence

  • Of all he had received from Lady Bellaston, not above five guineas remained and that very morning he had been dunned by a tradesman for twice that sum.
  • The bat, as a racquet used to be called, is the chief tool of the squash tradesman.
  • It is the language of the marketplace, of the tradesman, and of the cost accountant.

All 15 example sentences with tradesman

Antonyms of tradesman

Forms of tradesman

pluraltradesmen

Plural of tradesman: tradesmen

Origin of tradesman

From trade + -s- + -man.

Words formed from tradesman

Questions about tradesman

What does tradesman mean?
Tradesman means a skilled manual worker (implied male).
What is tradesman in Urdu?
Tradesman in Urdu is تاجر. See Tradesman meaning in Urdu.
What part of speech is tradesman?
Tradesman is a noun.
What is the plural of tradesman?
The plural of tradesman is tradesmen.

Words near tradesman in the dictionary

  1. tradeshop
  2. tradeshops
  3. tradeshow
  4. tradeshows
  5. tradesies
  6. tradesman
  7. tradesman's entrance
  8. tradesman's entrances
  9. tradesmanlike
  10. tradesmanly
  11. tradesmanship

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: tradesman (page history and authors); tradesman (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); tradesman (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); tradesman (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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