shopkeeper
Americannoun
noun
Other Word Forms
- shopkeeping noun
Etymology
Origin of shopkeeper
Example Sentences
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Just across the street at the Ali Bin Ali grocery store, a shopkeeper was more apprehensive as he arranged boxes of Iranian dates and nuts.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 1, 2026
The son of a Philadelphia shopkeeper, Schwarzman grew up watching his father extend credit to newly arrived immigrants to be repaid when they could, he recalled in his Giving Pledge letter.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 10, 2026
Majid, a mobile shopkeeper in his thirties, said this time felt different.
From Barron's • Jan. 9, 2026
"The experience haunts me. It gives me nightmares," he said as he sat in his all-black outfit at the camp, unsure whether he would ever return to his ordinary life as a shopkeeper.
From BBC • Nov. 25, 2025
Baba pays the shopkeeper, who loads his wheelbarrow with our bags and walks us to the road that leads to Tal Al Karama.
From "Without Refuge" by Jane Mitchell
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