groceryman
Americannoun
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of groceryman
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
See Examples For:
The son of an Irish-born Glasgow groceryman, he quit school at ten, worked around Glasgow for a few years, in 1865 sailed for the U.S.
From Time Magazine Archive
August F. Seested, 64, president & general manager of The Kansas City Star, native of Denmark, son of a groceryman; of stomach trouble; in Kansas City, Mo. Died.
From Time Magazine Archive
Grocer McDonald, son of a Knoxville groceryman, built up a chain of 60 stores in Chattanooga.
From Time Magazine Archive
The housewife tends to castigate the retail groceryman.
From Time Magazine Archive
If you were to ask the average groceryman in Washington City whether he wanted his son to go into the grocery business he would say no.
From Northern Nut Growers Association, Report of the Proceedings at the Seventh Annual Meeting Washington, D. C. September 8 and 9, 1916. by Northern Nut Growers Association
No one learned the lessons of innovation better than the nation's butchers, bakers and grocerymen.
From Time Magazine Archive
The reason the grocerymen gave Wechsler was that he had become a "controversial" figure.
From Time Magazine Archive
Looking for a new competitive edge, grocerymen found it in trading stamps.
From Time Magazine Archive
I sell some apples in the orchard to neighbors, and some to grocerymen.
From The Apple by Various
And so, Mr. President, if you stand back on the difficulties in these things, there would be not only no grocerymen, but no lawyers, no doctors, no dentists, and, perhaps, nobody working for the government.
From Northern Nut Growers Association, Report of the Proceedings at the Seventh Annual Meeting Washington, D. C. September 8 and 9, 1916. by Northern Nut Growers Association
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
