druggist
Americannoun
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a person who compounds or prepares drugs according to medical prescriptions; apothecary; pharmacist; dispensing chemist.
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the owner or operator of a drugstore.
noun
Etymology
Origin of druggist
Example Sentences
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Store by store, druggist by druggist, and prescription by prescription, the FDA team worked to find every patient who still had a bottle of the elixir and to confiscate the remaining medicine.
From Slate • Oct. 1, 2022
His father was a druggist who would eventually own his own store.
From Washington Post • Dec. 1, 2016
Townspeople like Gower the druggist, Ernie the cabdriver, Bert the cop — George knew them all by name, and he knew their stories.
From Seattle Times • Dec. 17, 2014
It is surmised that during this time, James’ brother John Monroe, who served as Clay County coroner and Rector druggist, helped to fund his brother’s travels and exile in the West.
From Washington Times • Dec. 8, 2014
He seemed a druggist in name only; he more closely fit the prevailing ideal of the self-made man who through hard work and invention pulled himself rung by rung into the upper strata of society.
From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson
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