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приказчик

приказчик

Russian

Alternative forms

Noun

прика́зчик (prikázčik) m anim (genitive прика́зчика, nominative plural прика́зчики, genitive plural прика́зчиков)

  1. (historical) shop clerk, shop assistant, salesman (hired worker in a shop in pre-revolutionary Russia)
    приказчик в лавке
  2. (historical) steward, managing landowner’s manor in pre-revolutionary Russia
    барский приказчик
  3. (figuratively, dated) someone who blindly follows and obeys his master

Declension

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Derived terms

  • приказчицкий (prikazčickij)
  • приказчичий (prikazčičij)