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WORKMANSHIP

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Dictionary entry overview: What does workmanship mean?

• WORKMANSHIP (noun)
The noun WORKMANSHIP has 1 sense:

1. skill in an occupation or trade

Familiarity information: WORKMANSHIP used as a noun is very rare.

Dictionary entry details

• WORKMANSHIP (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

Skill in an occupation or trade

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Synonyms:

craftsmanship; workmanship; craft

Hypernyms ("workmanship" is a kind of...):

accomplishment; acquirement; acquisition; attainment; skill (an ability that has been acquired by training)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "workmanship"):

housecraft (skill in domestic management)

priestcraft (the skills involved in the work of a priest)

stagecraft (skill in writing or staging plays)

tradecraft (skill acquired through experience in a trade; often used to discuss skill in espionage)

watercraft (skill in the management of boats)

woodcraft (skill in carving or fashioning objects from wood)

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