tradesman

tradesman
A man who follows a particular trade. A man engaged in business, as distinguished from a professional man. In England, the word would seem to be principally used as expressive of a person engaged in traffic as a small shopkeeper; but in this country, it embraces a much larger class. Here it is seldom applied to persons engaged in the business of buying and selling, but is generally accepted as signifying mechanics and artisans of every kind whose livelihood depends upon the labor of their hands. Richie v McCauley, 4 Pa 471, 472.

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