What's the difference between storekeeper and storeman?

Storekeeper


Definition:

  • (n.) A man in charge of stores or goods of any kind; as, a naval storekeeper.
  • (n.) One who keeps a "store;" a shopkeeper. See 1st Store, 3.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) But it's been hard to convince employers that my dream is to become a storekeeper, or a sales person for a spare parts car company, after spending four years and €40,000 on tuition fees.
  • (2) With her hand stretched upward, the elderly storekeeper in batik dress and white headscarf indicates the height of the waters that poured into her home in Jakarta’s great flood of 2007 .
  • (3) The RAF’s storekeepers, who transferred into the new company, knew how to do that.
  • (4) Each child pretended to be a storekeeper and responded to an adult customer's ambiguous requests.
  • (5) Anybody, storekeeper, anybody who was caucasian could get you in trouble,” he said.
  • (6) Best of all, Terkel liked the ghost-town storekeeper in Kentucky who says: "The last flicker of my life will be against something I don't think has to be."

Storeman


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Don’t get beaten up and arrested tonight.” Also taking part in the march was Steve Foster, a 36-year-old storeman from Liverpool, who said: “The inquiry into institutional paedophilia is probably the main reason [why I am here].
  • (2) Fourteen (54%) were in practical occupations such as a cook, storeman, and truck driver.
  • (3) "It's all just overkill," says David Wentworth, a 46-year-old storeman who works for a local electrical company, and talks to me outside Eastleigh's branch of Sainsbury's.
  • (4) The electrodes of the pain-control equipment were built into the prosthetic socket to enable treatment to be continued while the patient was working in his full-time occupation as a storeman.

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