Synonyms:
shopkeeper, tradesman, storekeeper, market_keeper
Meaning: a merchant who owns or manages a shop
Usage examples
Get to work, and gather a good lot of honey for me to sell to the shopkeeper in the autumn.
Upon such festival occasions the shopkeeper does not put up his shutters and leave his place of business, but the open shop-fronts add much to the gay appearance of the street.
And, indeed, what aristocratic philosophers have always maintained is that men really differ so much in capacity that one is happier for being a slave, another for being a shopkeeper, and a third for being a king.