Word Meanings - STOREKEEPER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. A man in charge of stores or goods of any kind; as, a naval storekeeper. 2. One who keeps a "store;" a shopkeeper. See 1st Store, 3.

Related words: (words related to STOREKEEPER)

• STORER
  One who lays up or forms a store.
• CHARGEANT
  Burdensome; troublesome. Chaucer.
• CHARGEABLE
  1. That may be charged, laid, imposed, or imputes; as, a duty chargeable on iron; a fault chargeable on a man. 2. Subject to be charge or accused; liable or responsible; as, revenues chargeable with a claim; a man chargeable with murder. 3. Serving
• CHARGE
  1. To lay on or impose, as a load, tax, or burden; to load; to fill. A carte that charged was with hay. Chaucer. The charging of children's memories with rules. Locke. 2. To lay on or impose, as a task, duty, or trust; to command, instruct, or
• CHARGE D'AFFAIRES
  A diplomatic representative, or minister of an inferior grade, accredited by the government of one state to the minister of foreign affairs of another; also, a substitute, ad interim, for an ambassador or minister plenipotentiary.
• STORED
  Collected or accumulated as a reserve supply; as, stored electricity. It is charged with stored virtue. Bagehot.
• GOODSHIP
  Favor; grace. Gower.
• SHOPKEEPER
  A trader who sells goods in a shop, or by retail; -- in distinction from one who sells by wholesale. Addison.
• CHARGELESS
  Free from, or with little, charge.
• GOODS
  See 3
• STOREY
  See STORY
• CHARGEABLENESS
  The quality of being chargeable or expensive. Whitelocke.
• CHARGEOUS
  Burdensome. I was chargeous to no man. Wyclif, .
• STOREHOUSE
  1. A building for keeping goods of any kind, especially provisions; a magazine; a repository; a warehouse. Joseph opened all the storehouses, and sold unto Egyptians. Gen. xli.
• STORESHIP
  A vessel used to carry naval stores for a fleet, garrison, or the like.
• CHARGEABLY
  At great cost; expensively.
• STORE
  Articles, especially of food, accumulated for some specific object; supplies, as of provisions, arms, ammunition, and the like; as, the stores of an army, of a ship, of a family. His swine, his horse, his stoor, and his poultry. Chaucer. In store,
• CHARGER
  1. One who, or that which charges. 2. An instrument for measuring or inserting a charge. 3. A large dish. Give me here John Baptist's head in a charger. Matt. xiv. 8. 4. A horse for battle or parade. Macaulay. And furious every charger neighed.
• CHARGEFUL
  Costly; expensive. The fineness of the gold and chargeful fashion. Shak.
• NAVALS
  Naval affairs.
• MISCHARGE
  To charge erroneously, as in account. -- n.
• ENCHARGE
  To charge ; to impose upon. His countenance would express the spirit and the passion of the part he was encharged with. Jeffrey.
• OVERCHARGE
  1. To charge or load too heavily; to burden; to oppress; to cloy. Sir W. Raleigh. 2. To fill too full; to crowd. Our language is overcharged with consonants. Addison. 3. To charge excessively; to charge beyond a fair rate or price. 4.
• UNCHARGE
  1. To free from a charge or load; to unload. Wyclif. 2. To free from an accusation; to make no charge against; to acquit. Shak.
• SURCHARGEMENT
  The act of surcharging; also, surcharge, surplus. Daniel.
• DRY GOODS
  A commercial name for textile fabrics, cottons, woolens, linen, silks, laces, etc., -- in distinction from groceries.
• OVERHEAD CHARGES; OVERHEAD EXPENSES
  Those general charges or expenses in any business which cannot be charged up as belonging exclusively to any particular part of the work or product, as where different kinds of goods are made, or where there are different departments in a business;
• RESTORE
  To bring back to its former state; to bring back from a state of ruin, decay, disease, or the like; to repair; to renew; to recover. "To restore and to build Jerusalem." Dan. ix. 25. Our fortune restored after the severest afflictions. Prior. And
• RECHARGE
  1. To charge or accuse in return. 2. To attack again; to attack anew. Dryden.
• CASTOREUM
  A peculiar bitter orange-brown substance, with strong, penetrating odor, found in two sacs between the anus and external genitals of the beaver; castor; -- used in medicine as an antispasmodic, and by perfumers.
• SURCHARGER
  One who surcharges.