storekeeper
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He was born on Sept. 11, 1921 to Lebanese immigrant parents and raised in Beckley, W. Va., a coal town where his father worked as a storekeeper and miner.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 4, 2026
According to the investigation, a Malaysian man served as storekeeper and assistant chemist, with two other locals acting as his trusted aides.
From Barron's ● Dec. 20, 2025
In Ghana he worked as a petrol pump attendant and a storekeeper.
From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2024
The only child of Pieter Westra, a jewelry merchant, and Hendrika van Doorn, a storekeeper, she recalled a lonely childhood in which she learned to amuse herself.
From New York Times ● Mar. 8, 2023
They knew that Pa would trade his furs to the storekeeper for beautiful things from town, and all day they were expecting the presents he would bring them.
From "Little House in the Big Woods" by Laura Ingalls Wilder
According to the Etemad newspaper, one trader who did not give his name, complained that officials had offered no support to storekeepers battling soaring import costs.
From Barron's ● Dec. 30, 2025
She pressured storekeepers to donate additional groceries for the needy, lest she step onto the street and publicly denounce them as “thieving gougers of widows and orphans.”
From Slate ● Sep. 7, 2021
As landowners opened stores and storekeepers bought farmland, moreover, the landlord and merchant might become the same person.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 18, 2018
Leaning against the counter are the extravagantly dour and dumpy storekeepers.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 4, 2015
He didn’t follow them around the aisles like some storekeepers do, but he always let them know there wasn’t going to be any funny business here.
From "Native Speaker" by Chang-rae Lee
