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TRADESMAN
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A merchant who owns or manages a shop
Synonyms:
market keeper; shopkeeper; storekeeper; tradesman
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("tradesman" is a kind of...):
merchandiser; merchant (a businessperson engaged in retail trade)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "tradesman"):
cleaner; dry cleaner (the operator of dry-cleaning establishment)
florist (someone who grows and deals in flowers)
hosier (a tradesman who sells hosiery and (in England) knitwear)
newsagent; newsdealer; newsstand operator; newsvendor (someone who sells newspapers)
tobacconist (a retail dealer in tobacco and tobacco-related articles)
Holonyms ("tradesman" is a member of...):
tradespeople (people engaged in trade)
Context examples:
For instance, when I am at home, and dressed as I ought to be, I carry on my body the workmanship of a hundred tradesmen; the building and furniture of my house employ as many more, and five times the number to adorn my wife.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
Holmes left us standing at the door and walked slowly all round the house, across the front, down the tradesmen’s path, and so round by the garden behind into the stable lane.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
It appeared to me, on looking over the tradesmen's books, as if we might have kept the basement storey paved with butter, such was the extensive scale of our consumption of that article.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
He paid a dollar each on account to the four tradesmen, and in his kitchen fried steak and onions, made coffee, and stewed a large pot of prunes.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
Quite a crowd had gathered in the Old Square: men and women, dark-coated tradesmen, bucks from the Prince’s Court, and officers from Hove, all in a buzz of excitement; for Sir John Lade and my uncle were two of the most famous whips of the time, and a match between them was a thing to talk of for many a long day.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
I conversed only with women, tradesmen, flappers, and court-pages, during two months of my abode there; by which, at last, I rendered myself extremely contemptible; yet these were the only people from whom I could ever receive a reasonable answer.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
On the right side was a small wooden thicket, which led into a narrow path between two neat hedges stretching from the road to the kitchen door, and forming the tradesmen’s entrance.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Also, he paid the other tradesmen in full, redeemed his suit and his bicycle, paid one month's rent on the type-writer, and paid Maria the overdue month for his room and a month in advance.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
As to their military affairs, they boast that the king’s army consists of a hundred and seventy-six thousand foot, and thirty-two thousand horse: if that may be called an army, which is made up of tradesmen in the several cities, and farmers in the country, whose commanders are only the nobility and gentry, without pay or reward.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
Our visitor bore every mark of being an average commonplace British tradesman, obese, pompous, and slow.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
