floorwalker
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of floorwalker
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
And right there behind the gallerygoer is a plaster facsimile of a real person looking like a petrified floorwalker.
From Time Magazine Archive
At this time he came to the U. S. where he was employed as a floorwalker in the New York department stores, of Abraham & Straus and John Wanamaker.
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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