单词 | storekeeper |
释义 | storekeepern. 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. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > supply > storage > [noun] > place where anything is or may be stored > person in charge of store storekeeper1618 storeman1859 society > armed hostility > warrior > soldier > leader or commander > officer according to function > [noun] > officer in charge of stores storekeeper1618 munitioner1632 sub-conductor1778 storeman1859 storeholder1869 conductor1879 1618 in J. Charnock Hist. Mar. Archit. (1801) II. 238 Under storekeepers, Chatham. 1663 S. Pepys Diary 5 Mar. (1971) IV. 66 Troubling me and other friends in getting him a place (that is, Storekeeper of the Navy at Tanger). 1704 J. Chamberlayne Chamberlayne's Angliæ Notitia (ed. 21) iii. 532 Yeoman-Sadler and Store-keeper. 1704 J. Chamberlayne Chamberlayne's Angliæ Notitia (ed. 21) iii. 575 Officers of Her Majesty's Yards. At Chatham... Store-keeper. 1751 S. Johnson Rambler No. 113. ⁋8 That the best storekeeper was the mistress's eye. 1798 T. Hinderwell Hist. Scarborough 81 Besides whom, the military establishment consists of R. V. Drury, Esq. Store~keeper; a Barrack-Master, [etc.]. 1809 London Chron. 1 July 2/3 Mr. John Trotter, jun. the Storekeeper-General, and some of the other heads of departments, have gone to Portsmouth. 1838 E. Bulwer-Lytton Alice II. iv. v. 4 The post of Storekeeper to the Ordnance. 1876 N. Amer. Rev. 123 300 A dishonest store-keeper at a distillery. 1890 Rlwys. Amer. 307 Everything in the nature of material..passes through the Store-keeper's books. 2. a. North American, Australian, etc. A shopkeeper. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > selling > seller > [noun] > shopkeeper merchantc1400 shopholder1443 shopkeeper1530 shopman1572 storekeeper1741 box wallah1826 winkler1853 storeman1858 1741 P. Tailfer et al. Narr. Georgia 107 Augusta..is principally if not altogether, inhabited by Indian Traders and Store-keepers. 1775 A. Burnaby Trav. Middle Settlements N.-Amer. 38 The chief of the inhabitants are storekeepers or public officers. 1817 M. Birkbeck Notes Journey Amer. (1818) 97 The store-keepers (country shopkeepers we should call them) of these western towns. 1857 D. Puseley Rise & Progress Austral. 421 Geelong..Richardson, S., storekeeper. 1858 P. L. Simmonds Dict. Trade Products Store-keeper,..the name for a retail dealer or shop-keeper in the Colonies, who keeps a miscellaneous assortment of all kinds of commodities. 1887 F. Francis 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. ΚΠ 1891 Cent. Dict. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1917; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.1618 |
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