Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun One who owns or manages a shop.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who keeps a shop for the sale of goods; a trader who sells goods in a shop or by retail, in distinction from a merchant, or one who sells by wholesale; in general, a tradesman.
- noun An article that has been long on hand in a shop; as, that chair is an old shopkeeper.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A trader who sells goods in a shop, or by retail; -- in distinction from one who sells by wholesale.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
trader whosells goods in ashop , or byretail ; -- in distinction from one who sells bywholesale , or sellsdoor to door .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a merchant who owns or manages a shop
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Examples
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So the shopkeeper is smiling and winking and turning on all his charm and I cannot find a door (and how telling that this Rush fan wasn't perceptive enough to realize I was constantly moving in order to escape?).
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The shopkeeper is wildly defensive, determined not to “let this happen to him again”.
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But then his brother's death sparks an unexpected friendship with Mrs. Jasmina Ali, the Pakistani shopkeeper from the village.
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Later in the day, the shopkeeper is driving home, when he spots the young woman standing waist deep in the water, shotgun in hand.
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But six months ago, I started drinking half a glass of my urine every morning and I am practically healed, a shopkeeper from the capital Yaounde wrote to Le Messager newspaper.
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The peasantry have long since disappeared, the independent shopkeeper is being destroyed, the small businessman is diminishing in numbers.
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Many a small shopkeeper is utterly ruined by some rehousing scheme which takes no notice of his existence.
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The thin Chinese shopkeeper types the price, RMB 1,200, on a calculator and hands it over with a flourish.
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The name used by a squaddie entering one of these shops to the shopkeeper was always “Muckerjhee”, no matter what his real name.
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I found, to my inexpressible satisfaction, the shopkeeper was my countryman.
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