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means A skilled worker in a manual trade—plumbing, carpentry, electrical work—who gets paid to do correctly what amateurs merely attempt.

from A compound of 'trade' and 'man.' 'Trade' comes from a Germanic word for a path or course, which narrowed to mean one's regular occupation or craft. By the 16th and 17th centuries a tradesman was a person who practiced a skilled occupation, often a shopkeeper, and the word later drifted toward someone who works with their hands.