shopkeeperism
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
shopkeeper + -ism
Noun[edit]
shopkeeperism (uncountable)
- The characteristic attitudes and behaviours of a shopkeeper.
- 1950, Quarterly Review of Literature, volume 6, page 104:
- Their general petty shopkeeperism is so constant, their relinquishment of a concern for literature and public taste so commonplace, we are inclined to forget the flagrancy of their defection.