storekeeper
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But his role went far beyond storekeeper, Hassane said.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 22, 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
Kwang nodded and then gestured for the storekeeper to speak with him inside the store.
From "Native Speaker" by Chang-rae Lee
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
Many of the storekeepers invited sitting in their stores, but we did not have sitting because the laundry was hot and because it was outside Chinatown.
From "The Woman Warrior" by Maxine Hong Kingston
