chapmanship means the state, quality, condition, or role of a chapman (dealer, bargainer, tradesman). Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 87 out of 100.
noun
- 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.”