market keeper

1. 1.

   a merchant who owns or manages a shop

   Synonymsshopkeepertradesmanstorekeeper

   Broadermerchant

   Narrowercleanerfloristhosiernewsagenttobacconist

   Part oftradespeople

Questions about market keeper

What does market keeper mean?

market keeper means "a merchant who owns or manages a shop".

What is another word for market keeper?

Close synonyms include shopkeeper, tradesman, storekeeper. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is market keeper a common word?

market keeper is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.