shop owner

collocation in English

meaningsofshopandowner

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shop
noun[C]
uk
/ʃɒp/us
/ʃɑːp/
UK
a place where you can buy goods ...
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owner
noun[C]
uk
/ˈəʊ.nər/us
/ˈoʊ.nɚ/
someone who ...
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(Definition ofshopandownerfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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In return, theshopownerwould improve the inside.
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Under our proposals, the receipt which the householder had received for his deposit would bear the names of the previousshopowner.
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However, one must appreciate that theshopowneris paying high non-domestic rates plus rent and has many overheads.
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That would save the breeder and the petshopownera great deal of trouble.
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As a result, the sub-postmaster and theshopowner—often one and the same person—will have the dual benefits.
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It is not so much theshopownerand the small shopkeeper who are suffering from profiteering, but the middle classes.
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However, where a post office is located alongside a retail outlet, the decision to sell alcoholic drinks rests with theshopowner.
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They would mean that the individualshopownerwas able to balance demand and supply according to the market, according to his locality.
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Conversely, the one-personshopownerwith large premises but few customers and little turnover would pay extremely high rates.
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That investment must be channelled in a way that does not benefit just the individualshopowner.
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Theshopownercalls in the police to discover which member of staff is responsible so that he can be prosecuted.
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I think that this would be a tremendous advantage for theshopownerand a great help for the shop assistants.
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It will affect the smallshopowner—the man who lives above the shop.
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It would be for theshopownerto decide whether he wished to open his shop.
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Is the assistant to leave that customer until theshopownerhas filled up the prescribed form in the prescribed manner, which might take twenty minutes?
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People will not be put in a desperate position thinking that they will lose their jobs if they do not do exactly what the bettingshopownersays.
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My preference is always to leave the maximum freedom to, in this case, theshopowner, the shop proprietor, the shop worker and, most important of all, the consumer.
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The incomes from both these operations usually produce enough to support theshopowner; but few of those shops support enough on their own to produce very large profits.
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