TRADESPEOPLE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does tradespeople mean? 

• TRADESPEOPLE (noun)
  The noun TRADESPEOPLE has 1 sense:

1. people engaged in trade

  Familiarity information: TRADESPEOPLE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TRADESPEOPLE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

People engaged in trade

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Hypernyms ("tradespeople" is a kind of...):

people ((plural) any group of human beings (men or women or children) collectively)

Meronyms (members of "tradespeople"):

market keeper; shopkeeper; storekeeper; tradesman (a merchant who owns or manages a shop)

 Context examples 

She knew, that when he now took up the Baronetage, it was to drive the heavy bills of his tradespeople, and the unwelcome hints of Mr Shepherd, his agent, from his thoughts.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

This nerved me to get rid of Mary Anne, who went so mildly, on receipt of wages, that I was surprised, until I found out about the tea-spoons, and also about the little sums she had borrowed in my name of the tradespeople without authority.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

It was certain from the first, however, that they would eventually be detected, as the cook, from the evidence of one or two tradespeople who have caught a glimpse of him through the window, was a man of most remarkable appearance—being a huge and hideous mulatto, with yellowish features of a pronounced negroid type.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

When he was sober he used to be fond of playing backgammon and draughts with me, and he would make me his representative both with the servants and with the tradespeople, so that by the time that I was sixteen I was quite master of the house.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It would do for me and Dora admirably: with a little front garden for Jip to run about in, and bark at the tradespeople through the railings, and a capital room upstairs for my aunt.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)