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tradesman

noun C1
  1. A skilled manual worker (implied male).
  2. A manual worker (implied male) who visits private premises to perform his job. (dated) · Tradesmen should use the rear entrance.
  3. One who works in trade (commerce); a shopkeeper. (dated)

Plural tradesmen

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## The Three Tradesmen
Three Hundred Aesop's Fables, p. 40 · B2
“‘I thought you were the brokers,’ said she, ‘we have had some trouble with a tradesman.’
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, p. 69 · B2
Our visitor bore every mark of being an average commonplace British tradesman, obese, pompous, and slow.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, p. 3 · B2

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