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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
tradespeople
noun
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▪ Although the population has gradually increased the number of tradespeople has dwindled.
▪ But, around these parts, big trucks usually are purchased for heavy work by tradespeople.
▪ Doug had checked with the tradespeople in the shops Stella had visited, and they had confirmed exactly what she'd said.
▪ Is that it - only tradespeople, are we?
▪ Local tradespeople obviously benefited, but to what extent can only be guessed at.
▪ The place was thronging with all sorts - rough working men, sailors, neatly dressed tradespeople, a few dandies.
▪ This is also true of occupational dances in other ballets, for example in those for the tradespeople in Ashton's Cinderella.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Tradespeople

Tradespeople \Trades"peo`ple\, n. People engaged in trade; shopkeepers.

Wiktionary
tradespeople

n. 1 People engaged in trade. 2 Skilled workers.

Usage examples of "tradespeople".

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.

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.

I come to ask you one of those little favors which tradespeople owe to each other.

The food for its satire, too, is most admirably chosen, for no feature of the social life of that place and period is more amiably absurd than the efforts of the handicraftsmen and tradespeople, with their prosaic surroundings, to keep alive by dint of pedantic formularies the spirit of minstrelsy, which had a natural stimulus in the chivalric life of the troubadours and minnesingers of whom the mastersingers thought themselves the direct and legitimate successors.

For the Aunt Adas of today arrangements have to be made suitable, not merely to an elderly lady who, owing to arthritis or other rheumatic difficulties, is liable to fall downstairs if she is left alone in a house, or who suffers from chronic bronchitis, or who quarrels with her neighbours and insults the tradespeople.

He generally preferred to steal horses from landowners or tradespeople.

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.

And expensive tea is a very favourite luxury with well-to-do tradespeople and rich farmers’ wives, who turn up their noses at the Congou and Souchong prevalent at many tables of gentility, and will have nothing else than Gunpowder and Pekoe for themselves.

Bill had taken four times that already, for the news of the giant had spread, and tradespeople in carts, and gentlepeople in carriages, came from far and near.

The tradespeople owed them several debts, not the smallest of which was the virtual annihilation of a band of Roamers who had attacked their village and carried off a number of women and children.

Usara led the way out to the less exalted buildings of the high road where Hadrumal's tradespeople were setting about the more mundane occupations of their day.