Definitions

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  • noun The trade of an innkeeper; hostelry.

Etymologies

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inn +‎ keeping

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Examples

  • Alas! how any gentleman can fall to such bloody work when he might have a clean honourable occupation, such as innkeeping or the like, is more than my poor mind can understand.

    Micah Clarke His Statement as made to his three grandchildren Joseph, Gervas and Reuben During the Hard Winter of 1734 Arthur Conan Doyle 1894

  • Tori Spelling and Dean McDermott have tackled innkeeping and now they're trying wedding planning.

    Tori and Dean to Plan Weddings on New Series 2010

  • But shortly after moving in they decided to make it into a second career and try their hands at innkeeping.

    Bed, Breakfast and Movies Sarah Tilton 2011

  • Several small boys dashed into town to spread the news, and soon most of the population of Goodland had left their crops and their washing, their blacksmiths and their innkeeping to watch what we knew would be the chess match of the century.

    Father Swarat Matt Dennison 2010

  • Nor are South Asian immigrants to the USA more likely than Mexican immigrants to engage in entreprenurial activities like innkeeping or semiconductor manufacturing rather than agricultural stoop labor.

    "Virtually Bone from the Neck Up", Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

  • Some women worked at their husbands' occupations – retailing, printmaking, shipbuilding, innkeeping, operating ferry boats, and managing prisons.

    History of American Women Maggiemac 2008

  • BBC series written by and starring John Cleese and Connie Booth, with Cleese as the most incompetent innkeeper in the history of innkeeping.

    BEST HOLIDAY MOVIES 2006

  • Are only corpulent individuals attracted to the innkeeping life?

    When Good Fantasy Clichés Go Bad Paul 2008

  • Both female and male ESFJs relate with people in a way that combines warmhearted “mothering” and caring, considerate “innkeeping.”

    Now What? Nicholas Lore 2008

  • Some women worked at their husbands' occupations – retailing, printmaking, shipbuilding, innkeeping, operating ferry boats, and managing prisons.

    History of American Women Maggiemac 2008

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