(n.) A trader who sells goods in a shop, or by retail; -- in distinction from one who sells by wholesale.
Example Sentences:
(1) Everyone had something to say about the events, from professors to shopkeepers.
(2) Photograph: Peter Beaumont for the Guardian For his part the leader of Hadash, the veteran socialist party in Israel that emphasises Arab-Jewish cooperation, Odeh has now attracted a political star status most obvious on the stump in Lod on Wednesday in the repeated cries of “Ayman!” by shopkeepers and passersby keen to shake his hand or be photographed with him.
(3) "There were 85 others in my police cell, mostly young people," said the young shopkeeper held in police station No 14.
(4) "Some people pulled me out from the rubble," said shopkeeper Sharifuddin Aurfan, who was wounded.
(5) Shopkeepers said they were afraid to open after gunmen believed to be working for the Knights Templar cartel threw firebombs at several of the city's businesses and city hall over the weekend.
(6) The scale of the destruction in Birmingham, Manchester and Salford shocked morning commuters and prompted shopkeepers fearful of a repeat performance to board up premises at lunchtime.
(7) Small shopkeepers have called on the government to include them in plans to introduce a mandatory 5p charge on plastic carrier bags next year.
(8) Photograph: tom phillips for the Guardian “It’s not been good for us,” complained Wu Yuhua, a 42-year-old shopkeeper from Jiangxi province who was preparing to leave the city until the G20 roadshow had moved on.
(9) The tourists ambling down Ledra Street in the hot midday sun are a welcome sight – and not just for crisis-hit Cyprus's shopkeepers.
(10) Hundreds of shopkeepers and restaurant owners from Calais held a protest in Paris on 7 March to complain that they have suffered heavy losses as a result of the presence of migrants in the port.
(11) James Agate (1877‑1947) started out as a Manchester cotton merchant, moved to London as a shopkeeper, then rose to prominence as the most brilliant theatre critic of his day.
(12) She rather loved being a shopkeeper, perhaps because it gave her a rest from writing.
(13) It’s been a long time since I saw him last.” The shopkeeper, 79, said no one had been in the barbershop since at least Tuesday and it had now closed.
(14) "A toxic mix of gold, greed and alcohol has resulted in a spate of brutal murders in the interior," the newspaper reported, cataloguing killings involving miners, jewellers and shopkeepers working at the gold mines.
(15) Shopkeepers have placed oil drums on the pavement to try to put some distance between themselves and any blast.
(16) And, as every shopkeeper will tell you, a huge sector of our economy depends on this.
(17) Fellow shopkeepers, she said, woke up yesterday to find their stock bobbing about in high waters.
(18) The UK is just as much a nation of shopkeepers as a vanguard of cutting-edge capitalism."
(19) Anna, a shopkeeper whose store was hit by a shell on Monday, said she did not believe the ceasefire would last.
(20) From the largest supermarkets to the most modest corner store or market stall, shopkeepers will be compelled to charge customers at least 5p for the convenience of taking their goods home in a disposable bag.
Vender
Definition:
(n.) One who vends; one who transfers the exclusive right of possessing a thing, either his own, or that of another as his agent, for a price or pecuniary equivalent; a seller; a vendor.
Example Sentences:
(1) "It's a ridiculous, stupid law," says David Parry, vender of all kinds of household goods – pots of paint, rope, cigarette lighters.
(2) Patient services issues in HHC involve the ethics of providing high-technology feeding therapies to terminally ill patients and the controversies surrounding drug products, such as the appropriate amount of drug to be dispensed, the appropriate individual to compound home-care drug products, acceptable types of product packaging, and the impact of a switch in venders on the drug products supplied to patients.
(3) Because of careful planning, the cooperation of all pharmacy staff members, and frequent assistance from the computer vender, the nine-month conversion to a computerized system proceeded smoothly.
(4) The department developed a request for proposal and contracted with a vender for a system that would support unit dose drug distribution and i.v.
(5) Vender, Joyce (Indiana University, Bloomington), Kunthala Jayaraman, and H. V. Rickenberg.