storekeeping
- 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
Marshall Field III, publisher of Chicago's Sun and of New York's PM, neared his 50th birthday and the last installment of his inheritance from his storekeeping millionaire grandfather.
From Time Magazine Archive
Any honest person with $4,000 capital and some storekeeping experience can negotiate for a Ben Franklin franchise.
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
A new and powerful influence came into his life during the half idleness of his unsuccessful storekeeping.
From Lincoln; An Account of his Personal Life, Especially of its Springs of Action as Revealed and Deepened by the Ordeal of War by Stephenson, Nathaniel W. (Nathaniel Wright)
