shopkeeping
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- noun
- /ˈʃɑpˌkipɪŋ/
- Many young people are now considering shopkeeping as a viable career option.
Examples
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After years of experience in shopkeeping, she finally opened her own store.
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Although their houses are side by side, the wife of the shopkeeping household feels too embarrassed to share her humble seaweed in traditional neighborly reciprocity when she gets a whiff of what the neighbors are eating that night.
Academic text (1991) -
The others came from shopkeeping and laboring families.
Academic text (1995) -
Obviously, he and old man Pulaski were from the same school of shopkeeping.
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See Mui and Mui, Shops and Shopkeeping, 154.
Academic text (1996) -
Here, besides the Ridanis and Station-hoppers marooned by poverty, the pygmies living their own strange lives in the low-gravity hub, the occasional merchant or shopkeeping family building their trade, the only purpose of a Station was to move its visitors onward, to cast them through that window of passage to another world.
Fiction book (1990) -
His background in shopkeeping helped him understand customer needs better.
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Morphology
Etymology
Shopkeeping comes from shop and keeping: a shop is a place that sells things, and keeping comes from 'to keep', meaning 'to hold or take care of'. So, shopkeeping is the work of running and taking care of a shop.