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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

At this period the floorwalker, syncopater, broadcaster was earning $7,500 a year, but a malicious busybody informed the immigration authorities that he had overstayed his leave, and Versatile Gough went to Canada.

From Time Magazine Archive

He looks more like a floorwalker than a night walker, but he whisks her off to a ghoulish wedding witnessed by store dummies.

From Time Magazine Archive

Hoving escorts McPhee to his museum's Flemish collection with the zest of a "floorwalker on his way to the Hickey-Freeman suits" in a men's store.

From Time Magazine Archive

If a floorwalker asked whether she intended buying anything, she could say, yes, buy it and show him a thing or two.

From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith

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