tradeless, a.
(ˈtreɪdlɪs)
[f. trade n. + -less.]
1. Without a trade; unskilled in any trade.
| 1729 Young Imperium Pelagi v. xxi, O'er generous Glebe, o'er golden Mines Her beggar'd, famish'd, Tradeless Native roves. 1910 Blackw. Mag. Mar. 408/2 The semi-educated and tradeless worker. |
2. Without or destitute of trade or commerce.
| 1840 Tait's Mag. VII. 310 The Scotch nobility, in our tradeless days, were not sunk quite so low as the Italian nobility at present. 1897 M. Kingsley W. Africa 371 The delta region is tremendously interesting..; but it is tradeless. 1900 H. G. Graham Soc. Life Scotl. in 18th C. vii. i. (1901) 233 Consigned to perpetual poverty in some tradeless village. |