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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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One was the son of a Moroccan shopkeeper who had moved to Belgium, Abdelhamid Abaaoud, the future commander of the Paris attacks.
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Her father, Bernard, an Orthodox rabbi, transformed his tiny synagogue for shopkeepers on West 47th Street into a mecca for actors from Broadway, among them Sophie Tucker, Eddie Cantor and two of the Three Stooges.
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The withdrawal of 86 percent of India’s currency in circulation paralyzed small businesses, farmers, workers and shopkeepers who traditionally transacted in cash.
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Read More: Amid looting and hunger, Venezuelan shopkeepers fortify But even before the plan had solidified, the opposition was rejecting it as yet another distraction.
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First Known Use of shopkeeper
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SHOPKEEPER Defined for English Language Learners
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playDefinition of shopkeeper for English Language Learners
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: someone who owns or manages a shop or store
SHOPKEEPER Defined for Kids
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