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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

He belittles himself as "just a floorwalker," dislikes bothering with operational details.

From Time Magazine Archive

The son of a Hartford department-store floorwalker, he helped support his family as a filling-station attendant.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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 "The Pigman" by Paul Zindel

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