Definition of "tradesmen" []

• Plural form of tradesman. (noun)

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• "Their home, built by Randall of straw bale construction with the help of a few friends and local tradesmen, is a model of beauty, light and simplicity."
• "This I call inland trade, and these circulators of goods, and retailers of them to the last consumer, are those whom we are to understand by the word tradesmen, in all the parts of this work; for (as I observed in the beginning) the ploughmen and farmers who labour at home, and the merchant who imports our merchandise from abroad, are not at all meant or included, and whatever I have been saying, except where they have been mentioned in particular, and at length."
• "I didn’t know what could be done about it, and tackling tradesmen is something I hate to do, but I went off in search of someone to talk to."