shopsteader
nounEtymology From shopstead + -er.
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An entrepreneur who buys and renovates an abandoned shop as part of a shopsteading program.
- But Joseph Fuccl, a shopsteader who put $30,000 into a new pizza parlor, has no regrets.1979 November 30, The Cincinnati Enquirer, page 82:
- Cut—and—cover construction will not extend to the area in front of the shopsteaders' businesses.1987, Baltimore Northeast Corridor Alternative Transit Improvements:
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- Shortly after settlement, the shopsteaders must begin improving the property.2010, Edward J. Blakely, Nancey Green Leigh, Planning Local Economic Development: Theory and Practice, →ISBN: