shopsteader

English

Etymology

shopstead +‎ -er

Noun

shopsteader (plural shopsteaders)

1. An entrepreneur who buys and renovates an abandoned shop as part of a shopsteading program.
   • 1979 November 30, The Cincinnati Enquirer‎^[1], page 82:

     But Joseph Fuccl, a shopsteader who put $30,000 into a new pizza parlor, has no regrets.

   • 1987, Baltimore Northeast Corridor Alternative Transit Improvements:

     Cut—and—cover construction will not extend to the area in front of the shopsteaders' businesses.

   • 2010, Edward J. Blakely, Nancey Green Leigh, Planning Local Economic Development: Theory and Practice, →ISBN:

     Shortly after settlement, the shopsteaders must begin improving the property.