TRADESMAN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does tradesman mean? 

• TRADESMAN (noun)
  The noun TRADESMAN has 1 sense:

1. a merchant who owns or manages a shop

  Familiarity information: TRADESMAN used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TRADESMAN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A merchant who owns or manages a shop

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

market keeper; shopkeeper; storekeeper; tradesman

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 

He is generous to those who have no claim upon him, but he has ruined his tradesmen by refusing to pay his just debts.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

‘I thought you were the brokers,’ said she, ‘we have had some trouble with a tradesman.’

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I passed along the tradesmen’s path, but found it all trampled down and indistinguishable.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

She proved to be the daughter of a tradesman, rich enough to afford her the comfortable maintenance which had ever been hers, and decent enough to have always wished for concealment.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

“It would be no pleasure to a London tradesman to sell anything which was what he pretended it was.”

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

I dare say there is always some reputable tradesman's wife or other going up.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

He was declared to be in debt to every tradesman in the place, and his intrigues, all honoured with the title of seduction, had been extended into every tradesman's family.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

As a result, having exhausted his credit with the tradesmen (though he had increased his credit with the grocer to five dollars), his wheel and suit of clothes went back to the pawnbroker.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Yes; he did not stay many minutes in the house: Missis was very high with him; she called him afterwards a 'sneaking tradesman.'

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

The tradesmen came while we were yet speaking; and we moved in a body to old Dr. Denman’s surgical theatre, from which (as you are doubtless aware) Jekyll’s private cabinet is most conveniently entered.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)