storekeeper
IPA: stˈɔrkipɝ
noun
- One who runs a shop, either the owner or manager.
- One who is in charge of stores or goods of any kind.
- (US, colloquial, dated) Any unsaleable item.
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Examples of "storekeeper" in Sentences
- The storekeeper is the lowest official on a station.
- Blaauwildebeestefontein was very clear to me: the storekeeper was a sot.
- The storekeeper was a big, good-natured man, and he nearly stepped on me.
- The storekeeper was a tall, portly man, with a gray mustache and side-whiskers, and a high bald forehead.
- In The Victim, the Jewish son of an anti-gentile and ghetto-mentality storekeeper is being given a hard time by an insecure and alcoholic WASP.
- Janice asked, for it was difficult to remember to call the storekeeper's wife by any name but that to which she had responded for so many years while she taught the Polktown ungraded school.
- These fruits have been marketed by the farmers of California through their own marketing agency and are sold directly to your storekeeper from the farmers 'co-operative exchange belonging to and operated by the fruit growers of California.
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