tradespeoplemainly UK

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

People who sell things
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assistant
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barker
barrow boy
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flower girl
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retailer
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sales force
superseller
supplier
tout
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shopkeeper | Business English

shopkeeper
noun[ C ]
 COMMERCE UKuk /ˈʃɒpˌkiːpər/us(USstorekeeper)
someone who owns or manages a store, especially a small one:
Supermarkets have priced small shopkeepers out of business.

Examples of shopkeeper

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Initially, he worked on a small garden nursery venture begun by his energetic father, who was primarily a postmaster and shopkeeper.
Politically conservative, they stood up for small shopkeepers and artisans, distrusted advertising and preferred 'quality' to cheapness and darning to new clothes.
Before we go further and analyse the relationship between the state and the shopkeepers, the other major issue has to be dealt with.
For tradesmen and shopkeepers, and especially lawyers, bankers, brokers and investors, these were good times for money making.
The precise physionomy of the departmental electoral colleges naturally varied from department to department, but artisans, shopkeepers, and rural workers were scarcely in evidence anywhere.
The residence patterns of the shopkeepers and their assistants were influenced by a combination of factors.
Traders' associations argued that the introduction of cash registers, along with vocational education, would help solve many of the bookkeeping problems encountered by shopkeepers.
They were housed by their employers in boarding houses next to or above the shops, while the shopkeepers themselves lived elsewhere.
Bretons in this mixed-class area nonetheless included railway workers, shopkeepers and the occasional male white-collar worker.
The biggest problem faced by shopkeepers was their own multiplication and the consequent division of their market.
It has been done by looking at two major questions that involved the shopkeepers, namely the legislation on third parties and legislation concerning unfair competition.
It examines two major questions that involved shopkeepers, namely the legislation on third parties in labour disputes, and the legislation concerning unfair competition.
In it, he set out numerous cases where strike action and lockouts had struck very hard at a third party, the individual shopkeeper.
In at least one case, a shopkeeper and a worker were best friends.
At the same time, the total number of shopkeepers increased from 46,900 to 58,000 in 1930.
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