Definition of Shopkeeper

1. Noun. A merchant who owns or manages a shop.


Definition of Shopkeeper

1. n. A trader who sells goods in a shop, or by retail; -- in distinction from one who sells by wholesale.

Definition of Shopkeeper

1. Noun. A trader who sells goods in a shop, or by retail; -- in distinction from one who sells by wholesale, or sells door to door. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Shopkeeper

1. [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Shopkeeper

shopfuls
shopgirl
shopgirls
shopgoer
shopgoers
shopgrift
shopgrifted
shopgrifting
shopgrifts
shophar
shophars
shophouse
shophouses
shophroth
shopkeep
shopkeeper (current term)
shopkeeperly
shopkeepers
shopkeeping
shopkeeps
shopless
shoplift
shoplifted
shoplifter
shoplifters
shoplifting
shopliftings
shoplifts
shoplike
shopmaid

Literary usage of Shopkeeper

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Liberty of the Press, Speech, and Public Worship: Being Commentaries on by James Paterson (1880)
"... evidence of publication by B that th'e libel is in the handwriting of B's clerk or amanuensis.4 Liability of bookseller and shopkeeper for libels sold. ..."

2. The Liberty of the Press, Speech, and Public Worship: Being Commentaries on by James Paterson (1880)
"... evidence of publication by B that the libel is in the handwriting of B's clerk or amanuensis.4 Liability of bookseller and shopkeeper for libels told. ..."

3. Nile Notes of a Howadji by George William Curtis (1852)
"0 shopkeeper !" " To the devil, 0 Egyptian !" For no shopkeeper on record ever gave alms except to the miserable, deformed, old, and blind. ..."

4. Biographical Sketches of Loyalists of the American Revolution: With an by Lorenzo Sabine (1864)
"shopkeeper, of Boston. An Addresser of Hutch- inson in 1774; proscribed and banished in 1778. GREENWOOD. Of Boston. NATHANIEL, a Protester against the Whigs ..."

5. France by Morgan (Sydney), Thomas Charles Morgan (1818)
"The Sunday of a Parisian shopkeeper.—The higher class of citizens. J. HE street-population of a great city, the groups and crowds that hurry to and fro, ..."

6. The Co-operative Movement To-day by George Jacob Holyoake (1891)
"CHAPTER XL . THE CASE OF THE shopkeeper. THE shopkeeper has always opposed Co-operation: yet he is not in the danger he imagines. ..."

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