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shopkeepers

shopkeepers is the plural of shopkeeper.

Meaning of shopkeeper

Noun

shopkeeper (plural shopkeepers)

  1. A trader who sells goods in a shop, or by retail, in distinction from one who sells by wholesale, or sells door to door.
    • The retail trade of the borough also suffered, for the shopkeepers found it difficult to attract the occupiers of the luxurious villas fast rising on Surbiton Hill, and the shops erected near the station [in Surbiton] made the competition still more keen.1958 July, J. Spencer Gilks, “Railway Development at Kingston-upon-Thames—1”, in Railway Magazine, page 449
    Synonyms:
    storekeeper

Questions about shopkeepers

What is shopkeepers the plural of?
Shopkeepers is the plural of shopkeeper.

Words near shopkeepers in the dictionary

  1. shopkeeperess
  2. shopkeeperesses
  3. shopkeeperish
  4. shopkeeperism
  5. shopkeeperly
  6. shopkeepers
  7. shopkeeping
  8. shopkeepress
  9. shopkeepresses
  10. shopkeeps
  11. shopladies

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