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单词 tradesman
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tradesmann.

Brit. /ˈtreɪdzmən/, U.S. /ˈtreɪdzmən/
Inflections: Plural tradesmen.
Forms: see trade n. and adv. and man n.1; also 1600s tradesemen (plural).
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: trade n., man n.1
Etymology: < the genitive of trade n. + man n.1
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.
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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.
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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. 4/7Tradesman’, 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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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).
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