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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The New York native had worked as a trade publication editor and publisher for American Druggist, High-Tech Marketing, Menswear and Sports Marketing News.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 31, 2022
The Druggist of Auschwitz is a “documentary” novel.
From The Guardian • Jan. 23, 2020
In 1917, a trade magazine called Northwestern Druggist reported on a soda counter offering a Lillian Gish sundae, a Baggot phosphate, and a Theda Bara cocktail.
From Slate • Feb. 17, 2014
In Chicago, Druggist George Haering, 82, bopped a burglar with a bottle, roped him, told admiring police: "I'm getting too old to be afraid of anybody."
From Time Magazine Archive
Look, press here, Mister Druggist, do you feel the swelling there?
From "The Chocolate War" by Robert Cormier
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