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shopwalker

[ shop-waw-ker ]

noun

British.
  1. a floorwalker.


shopwalker

/ ˈʃɒˌɔːə /

noun

  1. a person employed by a departmental store to supervise sales personnel, assist customers, etc US equivalentfloorwalker
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Origin of shopwalker1

First recorded in 1860–65; shop + walker
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Example Sentences

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This was an act of affection, and a triumphant assertion of the relationship—something more for those foppish shopwalkers to put in their pipes and smoke.

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Whether you or I command this ship matters no more than the two buttons on the back of the frock coat of a shopwalker.

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I suppose it was inevitable, and I did my best to appear patient, but in common fairness a judge has no more right than a shopwalker to import a trade manner into private life.

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An hour later he was being shepherded, scarlet in the face, by a posse of stentorian shopwalkers, through an embarrassing wilderness of ladies' hosiery to the Glove Department of an establishment in Oxford Street.

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He was the principal shopwalker, and Mr. Martin had a great respect for him.

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