Definition of shopkeeper
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The shopkeepers actually smile at the tourists' kids, and there is nary a stoplight in town.
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The site was first discovered on July 17 when a shopkeeper in west Mosul brought the observers to an empty building containing 17 male corpses.
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Standing outside the security barricades, thousands of average Poles -- farmers, students, teachers and shopkeepers -- filled the streets and greeted Trump with cheers.
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As the silver and gold traditions spread, celebrants — and shopkeepers — looked for parallel ways to mark earlier anniversaries too.
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On a visit to the Wadi Hajar neighborhood of western Mosul in April, just a month after it was recaptured, shopkeepers were repainting their blackened storefronts even as gunfire and explosions erupted a few blocks away.
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Shopkeepers resort to buying sacks of bitumen and filling in the potholes outside their premises themselves.
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Local shopkeepers wheeled shopping carts full of supplies towards pop-up donation centers, stopping along the way to hand out fruit and water to police and firefighters battling the blaze, which has left at least 12 people dead.
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Even the relatively modest outlying neighborhoods where shopkeepers live and students hang out are crammed with captivating views.
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First Known Use of shopkeeper
1530
SHOPKEEPER Defined for English Language Learners
shopkeeper
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Definition of shopkeeper for English Language Learners
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: someone who owns or manages a shop or store
SHOPKEEPER Defined for Kids
shopkeeper
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shop·keep·er
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ˈshäp-ˌkē-pər
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Definition of shopkeeper for Students
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