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floorwalker

American  
[flawr-waw-ker, flohr-] / ˈflɔrˌwɔ kər, ˈfloʊr- /

noun

  1. a person employed in a store to direct customers and supervise salespeople.


floorwalker British  
/ ˈflɔːˌwɔːkə /

noun

  1. the US name for shopwalker

"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

Etymology

Origin of floorwalker

An Americanism dating back to 1875–80; floor + walker

Example Sentences

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One former floorwalker confides that employees snap up the best pieces before customers can even see them.

From Slate • Oct. 17, 2013

"As aware of what's happening in that crowd around him as a floorwalker in a department store."

From Time Magazine Archive

Another ludicrously casts him as a floorwalker at Bloomingdale's.

From Time Magazine Archive

It seems the only fitting return for the hospitality of his welcome, for the reassuring absence of the officious floorwalker.

From Time Magazine Archive

You had lost your cars and your men as a floorwalker loses the stock of his department in a fire.

From "A Farewell To Arms" by Ernest Hemingway

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