单词 | shopkeeper proposal |
释义 | > as lemmasshopkeeper proposal General attributive, as in shopkeeper interest, shopkeeper proposal, etc. ΚΠ 1776 A. Smith Inq. Wealth of Nations II. iv. vii. 222 A clause in the famous act of navigation established this truly shopkeeper proposal into a law. View more context for this quotation 1850 C. Kingsley Alton Locke II. xiv. 196 I hated the well-born young special constables..because they would have fought. I hated the gent and shopkeeper special constables, because they would have run away. 1872 Contemp. Rev. June 571 That thriving shopkeeper class which has neither the simplicity of poverty nor the refinement of wealth..is the very backbone of British Philistinism. 1917 Atlantic Monthly Sept. 298/2 His alert manner in the presence of a customer was not of the rural shopkeeper type. 1982 R. Sheppard & M. Valpy National Deal iii. 48 The shopkeeper premiers who govern English Canada prefer not to be seen as grubby powermongers. 2005 P. N. Shorb Retailing Society, retailing State iii. 169 Representatives..were likewise forced to reinvent themselves as explicit champions of shopkeeper interests. < as lemmas |
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