grocer
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
grocer/ˈɡrəʊsə(r)/
▶noun a person who sells food and small household goods.
– origin ME (orig. ‘a person who sold things by the gross’): from OFr. grossier, from med. L. grossarius, from late L. grossus ‘gross’.
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