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shopkeeperism en · NOUN

Etymology

From shopkeeper + -ism.

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) The characteristic attitudes and behaviours of a shopkeeper.
    • 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. 1950, Quarterly Review of Literature, volume 6, page 104: