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storekeeper|ˈstɔəkiːpə(r)|
1. One who has charge of a store or stores; one who superintends the receipt and issue of stores; spec. an officer or official in charge of naval or military stores.
1618in J. Charnock Hist. Mar. Archit. (1801) II. 238 Under storekeepers, Chatham. 1663Pepys Diary 5 Mar., Troubling me and other friends for getting him a place (that is, storekeeper of the Navy at Tangier). 1704Chamberlayne Pres. St. Eng. iii. (ed. 21) 532 Yeoman-Sadler and Store-keeper. Ibid. 575 Officers of Her Majesty's Yards. At Chatham... Store-keeper. 1751Johnson Rambler No. 113 ⁋8 That the best storekeeper was the mistress's eye. 1798T. Hinderwell Hist. Scarborough 81 Besides whom, the military establishment consists of R. V. Drury, Esq. Store⁓keeper; a Barrack-Master, [etc.]. 1809Lond. Chron. 1 July 2/3 Mr. John Trotter, jun. the Storekeeper-General, and some of the other heads of departments, have gone to Portsmouth. 1838Lytton Alice iv. v, The post of Storekeeper to the Ordnance. 1876N. Amer. Rev. CXXIII. 300 A dishonest store-keeper at a distillery. 1890Rlwys. Amer. 307 Everything in the nature of material..passes through the Store-keeper's books.
2. N. Amer., Austral., etc. A shopkeeper.
1741P. Tailfer etc. Narr. Georgia 107 Augusta..is principally if not altogether, inhabited by Indian Traders and Store-keepers. 1775A. Burnaby Trav. 38 The chief of the inhabitants are storekeepers or public officers. 1817M. Birkbeck Notes Journ. Amer. (1818) 97 The store-keepers (country shopkeepers we should call them) of these western towns. 1857D. P[useley] Rise Australia etc. 421 Geelong..Richardson, S., storekeeper. 1858Simmonds Dict. Trade, Store-keeper,..the name for a retail dealer or shop-keeper in the Colonies, who keeps a miscellaneous assortment of all kinds of commodities. 1887F. Francis Jun. Saddle & Mocassin 61 To and fro flitted a few busy store-clothed store-keepers and clerks.
b. U.S. slang. An article that remains so long on hand as to be unsaleable.
1891Century Dict. |