Shopkeeper
['ʃɒpkiːpə] or ['ʃɑp'kipɚ]
Definition
(n.) A trader who sells goods in a shop, or by retail; -- in distinction from one who sells by wholesale.
Typist: Rosanna
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Tradesman, shopman, COUNTER-JUMPER, retail trader, petty trader.
Inputed by Lewis
Examples
- On the contrary, it, in many cases, prohibited the manufacturer from exercising the trade of a shopkeeper, or from selling his own goods by retail. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- A clause in the famous act of navigation established this truly shopkeeper proposal into a law. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- A friend of mine was the other day cheapening some trifles at a shopkeeper's, and after a few words they agreed on a price. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- And to our higher purpose no science can be better adapted; but it must be pursued in the spirit of a philosopher, not of a shopkeeper. Plato. The Republic.
- The remembrance of such a fact surely becomes a nation of shopkeepers. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- The prejudices of some political writers against shopkeepers and tradesmen are altogether without foundation. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Superior is getting to be shopkeepers' slang. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Mr. Bumble stopped not to converse with the small shopkeepers and others who spoke to him, deferentially, as he passed along. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- And have we not already condemned that State in which the same persons are warriors as well as shopkeepers? Plato. The Republic.
- It is, however, a project altogether unfit for a nation of shopkeepers, but extremely fit for a nation whose government is influenced by shopkeepers. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
Typed by Enid