1617 F. Moryson Itinerary iii. 239 The Plebeans intend Traffique and Shop-keeping.

1631 T. Powell Tom of All Trades 32 Little Skill, Art or Mystery, shall a man learne in Shop-keeping.

1708 E. Ward Mod. World Disrob'd 155 His joyful Kinsman..now disdaining all the groveling Thoughts of Trade and Shop-keeping, is resolv'd to set himself up for a compleat Gentleman.

1753 Scots Mag. Aug. 374/2 If naturalized foreigners should set up shopkeeping, and sell at a cheaper rate than our shopkeepers now do, it would be an ease to all the rest of our people.

1847 G. Grote Hist. Greece IV. ii. xxxii. 268 He advised Cyrus..to enforce upon them..habits of playing on the harp and shopkeeping.

1868 Student & Schoomate Dec. 563 To tell the truth, I am tired of shop-keeping.

1912 19th Cent. Jan. 61 His Majesty will make his rule in India a real government and not shop-keeping on the largest scale.

1959 O. Sitwell Place of one's Own 8 Mrs. Smedhurst, after four decades of successful shopkeeping in Leeds,..came to Newborough to find a house.

2015 Express (Nexis) 22 Jan. 46 There is no magic in shopkeeping if you have the right product at the right price.

1603 J. Florio tr. M. de Montaigne Ess. i. lvi. 174 A prentise or shoppe-keeping boy [Fr. vn garçon de boutique].

1622 S. Rowlands Good Newes & Bad Newes 7 Her worship highly scorn'd shop-keeping trade.

1705 D. Defoe Rev. Affairs France II. 7/1 Our Shopkeeping Lasses must be like them all.

1766 J. Tucker Let. from Merchant in London 46 A Shop-keeper will never get the more Custom by beating his Customers: And what is true of a Shop-keeper, is true of a Shop-keeping Nation.

1769 B. Franklin Let. 27 Apr. in Wks. (1887) IV. 242 This handicraft, shop-keeping state will, for its own sake, learn to behave more civilly to its customers.

1851 N. Hawthorne House of Seven Gables iv. 74 Uncle Venner was pleased to favor Hepzibah with some sage counsel in her shop-keepingcapacity. ‘Give no credit!’

1865 Sat. Rev. 7 Oct. 461/2 Nothing less suited than they are to the shopkeeping mind can be imagined.

1913 C. J. Stowell Stud. Trade Unionism in Custom Tailoring Trade i. 13 All these classes, but especially the merchant and master tailors, regarded with indignation the rise of the new shop-keeping class.

1946 Irish Monthly 74 7 That Keary draper who ruined himself in a fantastic effort to hold back the tides of shopkeeping fashion just because they threatened his absolute autocracy in his own shop?

1994 Independent on Sunday 19 June (Review Suppl.) 36/2 A red-haired, inarticulate man of action from the Catholic shopkeeping classes of County Mayo.

2015 Toronto Star (Nexis) 16 Feb. s9 With his shopkeeping experience and Henry's European wine knowledge they could have a really good Toronto business.