Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A member of a guild.
- noun An advocate of guild socialism.
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Examples
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That is one reason why the textile guildsman were so opposed to the mechanization of the textile industry.
Emergent Nations, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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Or he goes to the tavern where the Reg-Gok scum gather to drink themselves unconcious and tells a little something to a guildsman.
In Darkness » Blog Archive » From the Archives: No Clue 2007
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Advertising was forbidden, and the idea that one master guildsman might produce a better product than his colleagues was regarded as treasonable.
The Worldly Philosophers Robert L. Heilbroner 1999
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Advertising was forbidden, and the idea that one master guildsman might produce a better product than his colleagues was regarded as treasonable.
The Worldly Philosophers Robert L. Heilbroner 1999
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A guildsman and counsellor of the town of Shrewsbury, no less.
A Rare Benedictine Peters, Ellis, 1913- 1988
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Gunnery was a closed corporation, and the gunner himself a guildsman.
Artillery Through the Ages A Short Illustrated History of Cannon, Emphasizing Types Used in America Albert Manucy
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The guildsman, like the earlier democrat therefore, looks about him for an environment in which this ideal of self-government can be realized.
Public Opinion Walter Lippmann 1931
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The slave and the guildsman know where they will sleep every night; it was only the proletarian of individualist industrialism who could get the sack, if not in the style of the Bosphorus, at least in the sense of the Embankment.
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It showed a man of serious bearing, and brought to mind the princely guildsman of the Middle Ages.
Gänsemännchen. English Jakob Wassermann 1903
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It was the guild again which procured the raw material, and distributed it in relatively equal proportions amongst its members; or where this was not the case, the time and place were indicated at which the guildsman might buy at a fixed maximum price.
German Culture Past and Present Ernest Belfort Bax 1890
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