storekeeper
noun
a person who owns a store.
storekeeping
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a word derived from
storekeeper.
Example Sentences
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Ingrid Craigie and Gillian Hanna as Billy’s storekeeping aunts — whose worries about their nephew drives one of them into talking to a pet stone – are pretty much perfect.
From New York Times ● Jun. 27, 2013
Bob Murphy was back at the day-to-day storekeeping that, between fire alarms, is the sinew of professional diplomacy.
From Time Magazine Archive
But after 17 years of storekeeping, handsome Storekeeper Adam Gimbel still has a hankering after architecture.
From Time Magazine Archive
Willa Cather's two grandmothers, to whom she read aloud from English classics, and a storekeeping uncle who, an Oxford graduate, taught her Latin, were important aids to her education.
From Time Magazine Archive
It was no brilliant heritage, but it held out advantages greater on the whole than back-block storekeeping could be expected to afford.
From At Large by E. W. (Ernest William) Hornung
