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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

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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 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

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

He has all the worldliness of a floorwalker, and looks as if his last adventure were spending two weeks in a Swiss clinic getting a facelift.

From Time Magazine Archive

“Don’t feed them,” this nasty floorwalker called out.

From "The Pigman" by Paul Zindel

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