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shopkeeper

[ shop-kee-per ]

noun

  1. a retail merchant or tradesman; a person who owns or operates a small store or shop.


shopkeeper

/ ˈʃɒˌ쾱ːə /

noun

  1. a person who owns or manages a shop or small store
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Derived Forms

  • ˈDZˌ辱Բ, noun
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Other Word Forms

  • DZkiԲ noun
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Word History and Origins

Origin of shopkeeper1

First recorded in 1520–30; shop + keeper
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Parts of the hotel had been reduced to rubble as government forces and gunmen exchanged fire, shopkeeper Ali Suleiman, who witnessed the attack, told the Reuters news agency.

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"The power went out at 3:00pm, so we had no power at all," one shopkeeper in Santiago said.

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They said when he grew up, he wanted to play football for Celtic or be a shopkeeper.

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Le Pen was first elected to the French parliament in 1956 in a party led by militant right-wing shopkeepers' leader Pierre Poujade.

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Only one shopkeeper agreed to pay the women immediately.

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