Meaning

3 senses
  1. One who runs a shop, either the owner or manager.

    Ladenbesitzer, Krämer

    a merchant who owns or manages a shop

  2. One who is in charge of stores or goods of any kind.

    a naval storekeeper

  3. (US, colloquial, dated)Any unsaleable item.

Examples

2 sentences
  1. The robber hurried the storekeeper to open the safe.

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  2. The storekeeper, Tom Jackson, is a querulous man.

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Translations

4 languages
Deutsch
By meaning 1
person who runs a shop:

Origin

From store + keeper.

From store + keeper.

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Forms

plural: storekeepers
Singularstorekeeper
Pluralstorekeepers

regular

Synonyms

2 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

1 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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