floorwalker

American  

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

noun

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

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floorwalker British  

/ ˈflɔːˌwɔːkə /

noun

1. the US name for shopwalker

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Etymology

Origin of floorwalker

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

Example Sentences

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

From Literature

That floorwalker could have simply said that monkeys bite or that popcorn is not their natural diet or something like that—but instead he had to think he was a schoolteacher.

From Literature

One of his first significant roles as a Southerner was as a cigar-chomping prison floorwalker in the 1967 Paul Newman film “Cool Hand Luke.”

From New York Times

CG also remarked on that pesky floorwalker at the lab who is always glaring at Nina.

From New York Times

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

From Literature