shopkeeperism

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

shopkeeper +‎ -ism

Noun[edit]

shopkeeperism (uncountable)

  1. 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.