nounplural noun shopmen
dated BritishA male shop assistant or shopkeeper.
- ‘In Hull, for example, five clerks plus a shopman, cashier, butcher, tailor, joiner, engineer and jeweller were amongst those fined for betting in 1884.’
vendor, retailer, purveyor, shopkeeper, supplier, stockist, trader, merchant, dealer
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