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chapmanship

noun

Etymology

From chapman + -ship. Compare German Kaufmannschaft, Dutch koopmanschap, Old Frisian kapenskip (West Frisian keapmanskip).

  1. inherited from *kaupamann✻
  2. inherited from ċēapmann — “dealer, merchant”
  3. inherited from chapman
  4. suffixed as chapmanship — “chapman + -ship”

Definitions

  1. The state, quality, condition, or role of a chapman (dealer, bargainer, tradesman).

    • In short, after a great deal of chapmanship, the haberdasher got the fiddle at forty guineas; and a happy man was he, thinking he had made ten guineas by the bargain.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA