Other forms: shopkeepers
A shopkeeper is somebody who owns or runs a small shop. The village shopkeeper.
The job is stock, hours and knowing everybody, and the last is what a chain cannot copy. A shopkeeper works longer hours than almost anybody employed and takes home less.
1nounshopkeeperSomebody who owns or runs a small shop.
“The shopkeeper knew every family in the street by name.”
shopkeeper is a person.
Shop plus keeper, from the older sense of keeping a shop rather than working in one.
From shop + keeper.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA