tradespeople

• “I got the idea when I was in the process of renovating my own home, I found that although it was easy to get the phone number of tradespeople from the Golden Pages or friends of family, it wasn't so easy to progress from there.”

  EirePreneurZ: An interview with Barbara Molloy of Pickapro.ie

• “Many redtop and mid-market editors, if asked, would opt to be called tradespeople, not professionals.”

  The Guardian: PCC reform needs input from redtops and mid-market newspapers

• “When I arrived the tradespeople were all excitedly gathered by the balcony watching the water.”

  Help Me, I Actually Agree With PETA On Something « Unambiguously Ambidextrous

• “The gentry of a small country town could then afford to do with humble attainments in that line, and I am inclined to think the tradespeople were as a rule better informed.”

  Autobiography and Other Memorials of Mrs. Gilbert, Formerly Ann Taylor

• “Even the tradespeople will be a trifle the better.”

  Far Above Rubies

• “His balance at the banker's is a fact; his good name and credit with the tradespeople is a fact; so is the comfort of his home; so are the health, the morals, the education of his children.”

  Modern Women and What is Said of Them A Reprint of A Series of Articles in the Saturday Review (1868)

• “Becky Sharp, Thackeray's anti-hero in Vanity Fair, lived beyond her means and rarely paid her bills, particularly those she owed to "tradespeople" who had provided her with basic but unglamorous services.”

  The Huffington Post: Carl Pope: Is America the New Becky Sharp?

• “Mrs. Emery was one of the women who are always well served by "tradespeople," as she now called them, "and a good reason why," she was wont to explain with self-gratulatory grimness.”

  The Squirrel-Cage

• “And, just the other day, browsing through some Colonial Williamsburg teachers 'brochures that offer literature on how to introduce students to the American Revolution, I encountered the term "tradespeople" in lieu of "tradesmen.”

  The Rule of Reason

• “tradespeople," cause this observer of fine susceptibilities and an acute sense of the becoming to lament the desuetude of the ducking-stool.”

  From the Easy Chair — Volume 01

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