shopkeeper

IPA: ʃˈɑpkipɝ

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.
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Examples of "shopkeeper" in Sentences

  • The shopkeeper gave him a cent.
  • The shopkeeper has changed recently.
  • The shopkeeper gave him a plugger for free.
  • Howgate was the son of a British shopkeeper.
  • Knight took the role of a shopkeeper on the program.
  • They are often the petty shopkeepers in the villages.
  • The shopkeeper brings a pneumatic pump to the counter.
  • His father was a cutler and toolmaker and a shopkeeper.
  • A shopkeeper is found in the same condition in his home.
  • A common example of this interaction is the haggler and shopkeeper.
  • I found, to my inexpressible satisfaction, the shopkeeper was my countryman.
  • The shopkeeper is wildly defensive, determined not to “let this happen to him again”.
  • Many a small shopkeeper is utterly ruined by some rehousing scheme which takes no notice of his existence.
  • The thin Chinese shopkeeper types the price, RMB 1,200, on a calculator and hands it over with a flourish.
  • But then his brother's death sparks an unexpected friendship with Mrs. Jasmina Ali, the Pakistani shopkeeper from the village.
  • The name used by a squaddie entering one of these shops to the shopkeeper was always “Muckerjhee”, no matter what his real name.
  • Later in the day, the shopkeeper is driving home, when he spots the young woman standing waist deep in the water, shotgun in hand.
  • The peasantry have long since disappeared, the independent shopkeeper is being destroyed, the small businessman is diminishing in numbers.
  • 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.
  • 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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