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
Prosecutors say Esparza from late 2012 until September 2015 was the druggist in charge of Trinity Pharmacy in Carrollton.
From Washington Times ● May 10, 2016
George responds with tearful sympathy for the grief he knows the druggist is suffering.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 17, 2014
That book had fancy pictures like the ones that came with the calendars I seen hanging up in the druggist in Chicago.
From "Worth" by A. LaFaye
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