tradesman

plural tradesmen

1. A skilled manual worker (implied male).
2. datedA manual worker (implied male) who visits private premises to perform his job.

   Tradesmen should use the rear entrance.

3. datedOne who works in trade (commerce); a shopkeeper.

   During the morning she had seen several people and quite a number (comparatively) of tradesmen’s vans.

   1932, Dorothy L. Sayers, chapter II, in Have His Carcase

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   After this memorable event, I went to the hatter's, and the bootmaker's, and the hosier's, and felt rather like Mother Hubbard's dog whose outfit required the services of so many trades. […] It was not necessary to explain everywhere that I had come into a handsome property; but whenever I said anything to that effect, it followed that the officiating tradesman ceased to have his attention diverted through the window by the High-street, and concentrated his mind upon me.

   1861, Charles Dickens, Great Expectations