shopwalker

[ shop-waw-ker ]

noun

, British.

1. a floorwalker.

shopwalker

/ ˈʃɒpˌwɔːkə /

noun

1. a person employed by a departmental store to supervise sales personnel, assist customers, etc US equivalentfloorwalker

Word History and Origins

Origin of shopwalker¹

First recorded in 1860–65; shop + walker

Example Sentences

And when I got there I told a shopwalker who was standing near the door what I had come about.

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My shopwalker is very kind where I am, and I dont see any need to change.

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Devonham, for all his qualifications, looked painfully like a shopwalker.

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She wonders would they change it, if she went back and asked to see the shopwalker?

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The commercial gent, no doubt, thinks the ponderous shopwalker an ass, but refrains from telling him so.

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