shopkeeper

[ shop-kee-per ]

/ ˈʃɒpˌki pər /

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noun

a retail merchant or tradesman; a person who owns or operates a small store or shop.

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Origin of shopkeeper

First recorded in 1520–30; shop + keeper

OTHER WORDS FROM shopkeeper

shopkeeping, noun

Words nearby shopkeeper

shopfitter, shop floor, shopful, shopgirl, shophar, shopkeeper, shoplift, shoplifter, shoplifting, shoppe, shopper

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Mannar took a car to a local market and strolled around, polling the shopkeepers selling salt on where they got it.
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“We were inside and heard a noise much louder than usual,” said one shopkeeper, who did not want to be identified.
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The shopkeeper unlocked a door for us and we went down a narrow spiral staircase to a communal hole in the wall.
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Then Sheriff Onstad got a call: a country shopkeeper had found in his till a check from Nichols.
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I have been a shopkeeper since I was 21, I have worked in a shop since I was 15.
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“We get airstrikes every two or three days, depending on the weather,” says Abdul, a shopkeeper.
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The shopkeeper and his wife, drawn two ways by pity and self-interest, began by lulling their consciences with words.
An Episode Under the Terror|Honore de Balzac
That class is the mercantile, or rather shopkeeper class; and with them the money power is all powerful.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 67, Number 414, April, 1850|Various
I go to leave an empty basket at the door, and the lantern that the Shopkeeper set in the hand of the pedlar.
When Valmond Came to Pontiac, Complete|Gilbert Parker
And now a shopkeeper has filled his window with royal Stuart tartans, and I am instantly a Jacobite.
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It is delightful to hear them talk,—so different from an English shopkeeper.
Paul Patoff|F. Marion Crawford

British Dictionary definitions for shopkeeper

shopkeeper

/ (ˈʃɒpˌkiːpə) /

noun

a person who owns or manages a shop or small store

Derived forms of shopkeeper

shopkeeping, noun

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