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
But after 17 years of storekeeping, handsome Storekeeper Adam Gimbel still has a hankering after architecture.
From Time Magazine Archive
But the young British iron moulder who had borrowed $1,000 for his trading venture and taken in as partner a cousin named George Washington Taylor, had more genteel ideas about storekeeping.
From Time Magazine Archive
Bob Murphy was back at the day-to-day storekeeping that, between fire alarms, is the sinew of professional diplomacy.
From Time Magazine Archive
There were only a few hundred people in it, storekeeping and trading with the miners, of whom there were always a number hanging about, spending their hard-earned gold.
From A Claim on Klondyke A Romance of the Arctic El Dorado by Edward Roper
