tradespeople
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- noun
- /ˈtreɪdzˌpipəl/
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trabajadores calificados
- If you need home repairs, hiring experienced tradespeople can ensure the job is done correctly.
- skilled tradespeople
- need professional tradespeople
- other tradespeople
And, you know, most of the family were tradespeople of of various sorts or just workers.
- And, you know, most of the family were tradespeople of of various sorts or just workers.
- We have to have people who don't work in the trades or who don't employ tradespeople to realize that they nevertheless have skin in the game, right?
- They didn't like having tradespeople in because they might have a pecuniary interests that would lead them not to respect the truth.
Examples
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An average of 20 tradespeople die every week from asbestos-related diseases, the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has calculated.
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Self-employed tradespeople are particularly vulnerable financially if they have to take time off work because of sickness, research has highlighted.
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Here is a list of tradespeople with whom you may run an account.
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Around 1.3 million tradespeople face asbestos risk.
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However, our society tends to value educated professionals much more highly than tradespeople.
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There is a lot to be said for respecting the tradespeople of the past and what measures they took to create such finely crafted homes.
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Four other reliefs depict market scenes, with tradespeople selling meat, wine, bread, and milk to attentive customers.
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In 1942, there was a meaningful manual labor middle class that ranged from unionized factory work to tradespeople.
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The famous tourist attractions, the Jhongkang Temple and the Potala Palace, were built by the Chinese engineers and tradespeople during the 7th century.
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Her evidence gathered on the ownership of goods in the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries suggested that tradespeople in urban areas were the most innovative consumers.
Academic text (1996)
Synonyms
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4.1
A skilled worker who makes things by hand
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A person who makes useful or beautiful things by hand and is very skilled
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3.1
A person with special training for a specific job
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3.2
A skilled worker who does building or repair work
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A person who makes things by hand with great skill and care
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A person who does skilled physical work like an electrician or carpenter
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A woman who makes things by hand and is very skilled
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3.2
A skilled person who repairs and looks after machines in a workshop
A woman who does skilled work with her hands like carpentry
A worker in a workshop who repairs machines
How Skilled
Surface Forms
Morphology
tradespeople = tradesperson (transparent) = trade + person
The word is the plural of 'tradesperson' and its meaning is directly deducible from 'trade' + 'person'; the plural uses the suppletive form 'people' for 'person'.
Etymology
Tradespeople comes from the word trade, which long ago was like the word tread 'to step' and later came to mean 'work' or 'business'. So tradespeople are people who follow a skilled 'path' of work, like electricians or carpenters.