单词 | tradesman |
释义 | tradesmann. 1. A man engaged in a trade or a skilled manual occupation, esp. (in later use) one requiring an apprenticeship or other training, as that of a builder, plumber, electrician, etc.; an artisan, a craftsman.In later use less common in this sense in England, owing to the greater currency of sense 2. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > [noun] > manual worker > skilled worker or craftsman wright?a695 craftyeOE craftimanOE craftmanc1275 wroughtc1275 master-mana1325 mister mana1325 craftsmana1382 man of craft1389 artificera1393 handcraftman?c1480 handcraftsman1485 mechanic1509 handcrafta1525 handicraftsman1530 artisana1538 handicraftmana1544 handicraft1547 artsman1551 artist1563 mechanician1570 tradesmana1591 mechanical1600 mechanist1606 Daedal?1614 blue apron1629 Daedalus1631 crafter1643 fitter1648 mystery-man1671 toolsman1821 fundi1860 tradie1912 craftspersona1917 a1591 H. Smith Poore Mans Teares (1592) 35 Let euerie artificer and trades-man liue orderly, auoyding superfluous expences. 1625 Deb. Oxf. in S. R. Gardiner Deb. House of Commons (1873) 131 The Master of the Ordinance was auntiently a tradesman vntill 37 Henry 8, and then it was conferd on a nobleman. 1657 R. Ligon True Hist. Barbados 110 If they be Trades-men, as, Carpenters, Joyners, Masons, Smiths. 1738 J. Swift Compl. Coll. Genteel Conversat. 27 If Things did not break or wear out, how would Tradesmen live? 1762 A. Dickson Treat. Agric. ii. v. 144 Bad tradesmen make this plough heavy and clumsy. 1830 W. Cobbett Hist. Regency & George IV x. §505 The poor stipendiarists who officiated were left with incomes inferior to those of journeymen tradesmen. 1899 Times 25 Jan. 10 At the end of May a deputation of provincial tradesmen (in the Scotch sense) visited London... The carpenters and joiners came to terms with the employers. 1933 E. Jones Autobiogr. Early Settler xi. 52 As it was too far to get a tradesman up for any repairs, we were all, what was called, ‘Bush Carpenters’. 1979 Maclean's 2 July 42/2 The tradesman [sc. a repairman] would be there at 4 p.m., Rach was told. 2004 P. Hymers New Home Builder xi. 229 A good plasterer is a valued tradesman in this skill-deprived industry. 2. Chiefly English. A man engaged in trade or the sale of goods and commodities, usually on a relatively small scale; esp. a shopkeeper, or (in later use) a man whose job involves going to people's homes to sell or deliver goods. Cf. merchant n. 1c. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > selling > seller > [noun] > professional salesman?1530 tradesman1591 saleman1642 tradesperson1758 stockist1922 1591 C. Gibbon Work Worth Reading 42 The Gentlemen will require, the husbandmen will rayse, the tradesmen will rate, in selling of their land, corne, & ware a proportionall price according to the time of payment. 1622 G. de Malynes Consuetudo ix. 92 A Trades-mans shop, and a Merchants ware-house is taken to be publicke and open at the appointed times. 1695 R. Blackmore Prince Arthur iv. 106 The Tradesman quits his Shop. 1717 Lady M. W. Montagu Let. 17 May (1965) I. 354 Most of the rich Tradesmen were Jews. 1766 J. Fordyce Serm. Young Women II. vii. 32 The daughters of plain tradesmen and honest mechanics. 1838 C. Dickens Oliver Twist I. x. 154 The tradesman leaves his counter..the errand-boy his parcels, the schoolboy his marbles. 1885 M. E. Braddon Wyllard's Weird I. i. 30 This would give time for the tradesmen to get away from their shops. 1906 Daily Chron. 10 Feb. 4/7 ‘Tradesman’, which in the north is used to denote a workman who has learned a trade, while in the south it is made to apply to a man who runs a business. 1971 L. Beckwith About my Father's Business (1973) iv. 56 We..made our way to another warehouse where Father bought a tradesman's bicycle. 2007 M. Richards Growing Wild on Exmoor 71 Deliveries to the farm, before the lane was made up, were unknown, because tradesmen refused to come down. Compounds tradesman's token n. (also tradesmen's token) now historical (usually in plural) a token (token n. 11a) issued by a tradesman (in sense 2); cf. trade token n. at trade n. and adv. Compounds 3. ΚΠ 1757 Gentleman's Mag. 27 ix. 498/2 The best account of the money called Tradesmen's Tokens..is to be drawn from..Mr Leake's hist. account of English money, London 1745. 1849 J. Y. Akerman Tradesmen's Tokens p. i Notwithstanding the dictum of Pinkerton, many persons are yet found who collect Tradesmen's Tokens. 1901 Connoisseur Nov. 206/1 An interesting relic..in the shape of a tradesmen's token. 2011 J. W. Morgan Premier & Pastoralist 23 It was about this time that William had issued copper tradesman's tokens. tradesmen's door n. (also tradesman's door) now chiefly historical = tradesmen's entrance n. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > window or door > types of door > [noun] > other types of door hall-doorc1275 falling doorc1300 stable doorc1330 vice-door1354 hecka1400 lodge-doorc1400 street door1465 gate-doora1500 portal1516 backdoor1530 portal door1532 side door1535 by-door1542 outer door1548 postern door1551 house door1565 fore-door1581 way-door1597 leaf door1600 folding door1611 clap-door1625 balcony-door1635 out-door1646 anteportc1660 screen door1668 frontish-door1703 posticum1704 side entrance1724 sash-door1726 Venetian door1731 oak1780 jib-door1800 trellis?c1800 sporting door1824 ledge-door1825 through door1827 bivalves1832 swing-door1833 tradesmen's entrance1838 ledged door1851 tradesmen's door?1851 fire door1876 storm door1878 shoji1880 fire door1889 Dutch door1890 patio door1900 stable door1900 ledge(d) and brace(d) door1901 suicide door1925 louvre door1953 ?1851 Royal Compan. to Sights of London iii. 18 The entrance is at the tradesmen's door, near the Norman gateway. 1982 M. Hinxman Telephone never Tells iii. 21 A well-trodden path that wound round to the rear suggested..that the tradesmen's door was a more familiar mode of entry and not only for tradesmen. 2012 M. Fiorato Venetian Bargain (2014) xxiv. 211 She shut off the tradesmen's door..and insisted instead that every visitor to the house, great or lowly, should enter by the principal door in the square. tradesmen's entrance n. (also tradesman's entrance) now chiefly historical a minor or side entrance to a property for use by tradesmen or workmen. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > window or door > types of door > [noun] > other types of door hall-doorc1275 falling doorc1300 stable doorc1330 vice-door1354 hecka1400 lodge-doorc1400 street door1465 gate-doora1500 portal1516 backdoor1530 portal door1532 side door1535 by-door1542 outer door1548 postern door1551 house door1565 fore-door1581 way-door1597 leaf door1600 folding door1611 clap-door1625 balcony-door1635 out-door1646 anteportc1660 screen door1668 frontish-door1703 posticum1704 side entrance1724 sash-door1726 Venetian door1731 oak1780 jib-door1800 trellis?c1800 sporting door1824 ledge-door1825 through door1827 bivalves1832 swing-door1833 tradesmen's entrance1838 ledged door1851 tradesmen's door?1851 fire door1876 storm door1878 shoji1880 fire door1889 Dutch door1890 patio door1900 stable door1900 ledge(d) and brace(d) door1901 suicide door1925 louvre door1953 1838 Morning Post 30 Jan. 4/4 Charles Brown, a police-constable of the A division, stated that he was on duty at the tradesmen's entrance of the Palace. 1946 ‘J. Tey’ Miss Pym Disposes xiii. 143 ‘Shouldn't you be going in by the other door?’.. ‘I do not take well to tradesmen's entrances.’ 2002 L. Purves Radio (2003) xiv. 202 Reporters were sent round to the tradesmen's entrance in those days. Derivatives ˈtradesmanship n. [compare -manship suffix] (a) the quality or occupation of a tradesman; (in extended use) tradesmen collectively; (b) the (degree of) skill or expertise displayed by a tradesman, or in a tradesman's work; cf. workmanship n. 3. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > selling > seller > [noun] > professional > condition of being tradesmanship1817 salesmanship1880 society > trade and finance > selling > seller > [noun] > professional > collectively tradespeoplea1652 tradesfolk1716 tradesmanship1817 1817 J. Bentham Plan Parl. Reform Introd. ix. p. cxliii Say whether..Tradesmanship probity..is not worth all such other probities put together. 1859 Sat. Rev. 10 Dec. 702/1 Tradesmanship in all its proprieties may stand aghast at the revelations of the inner life of a Strand shopkeeper's family. 1899 Boston Jrnl. Commerce & Textile Industries 14 Oct. 53/4 Cheapness, when associated with inferior tradesmanship, is certain to bring with a loss for which they have only themselves to blame. 1910 Harper's Mag. May 900/2 From the industrious merchants who surrounded him there came daily to his ears the common formulæ of shrewd tradesmanship. 1916 Shoe & Leather Facts July 25/3 It is recognized as one of the strongest bonds of tradesmanship along certain lines. 2010 Sunshine Coast Daily (Queensland, Austral.) (Nexis) 25 Feb. 10 In his job as an electrical contractor.., Mr McKennon has seen his fair share of shoddy tradesmanship. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2015; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.a1591 |
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