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He was a baker by trade.
He started work at 16 in a local bakers.
The baker across the street does wonderful cakes.
The baker opens at seven.

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baker | American Dictionary

baker
noun[ C ]
us/ˈbeɪ·kər/
a person whose job is to make bread and cakes for sale

Examples of baker

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No debtor was poor, however, and some were bakers, indicating that this reflected commercial shortfalls as much as dearth conditions.
Everything works out, the inhabitants of the village bring back the baker's wife, and soon good bread is again crackling in the oven.
Especially hard hit were tailors, shoe-makers, carpenters, bakers and butchers.
The surface properties (charge, hydrophobicity, electron-donor and electronacceptor components) of different baker's yeast cells (industrial and laboratory strains) were also determined and compared.
To see this, consider a baker's claim to have developed a cake made with just one ingredient.
Their bellies grumbling, the village mounts a collective effort to return the baker's wife to her conjugal duty.
They started to add to the synagogue by drawing in the baker's shop that was next to it and so on.
Most frequently prosecuted were bakers and brewers, who were regularly fined for baking defective bread or for selling beer above price.
They called it the fat baker's transformation.
Other sources name bakers and piebakers, boatmen and shipmen.
Flued fireplaces were included in all the cottage designs but several of them also included bread ovens which would allow women to become bakers for their families.
Furthermore, proprietors who processed the goods they sold - such as bakers and butchers - were, as a whole, better rewarded and better organised than simple retailers such as fishmongers and greengrocers.
Of those male inhabitants older than five years of age, 92 were listed as pupils and students, 54 as innkeepers, 18 as bakers, and 17 as tradesmen.
Over the century, the baker's guild was assailed with growing venom as an anti-social racket restricting admissions to the trade, monopolizing custom, pushing prices up, and making fortunes.
The output of national wheatmeal has risen steadily during recent weeks, and bakers in many parts of the country report encouraging increases in sales.
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