personal shopper

[ pur-suh-nl shop-er ]

/ ˈpɜr sə nl ˈʃɒp ər /

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noun

a person, often a store employee, whose job is to assist shoppers in selecting clothing or other merchandise, or to shop for people who have submitted orders.

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Origin of personal shopper

First recorded in 1940–45

OTHER WORDS FROM personal shopper

per·son·al shop·ping, noun

Words nearby personal shopper

personal organizer, personal pension, personal pronoun, personal property, personal rapid transit, personal shopper, personal space, personal staff, personal stereo, personal stylist, personal trainer

How to use personal shopper in a sentence

Adrienne Whyte used to go to the mall twice a week, where she might meet up with her personal shoppers at Neiman Marcus and Saks Fifth Avenue or scour Macy’s for bedding and kitchenware.
Mall department stores were struggling. The pandemic has pushed them to the edge of extinction.|Abha Bhattarai|April 16, 2021|Washington Post
The personal shopper and real estate agent made a major career change when she was struck with the idea on a whim.
How Home Bakers Have Found Sweet Success During the Pandemic|Raisa Bruner|March 4, 2021|Time
The email appears to have been a relatively common attempt to gain personal information from a wide range of unwitting victims.
Was Sony Hit With a Second Hack?|Shane Harris|January 8, 2015|DAILY BEAST
And, as Gow adds wryly from his own personal experience, “To a huge extent they achieved that aim very well.”
‘Nazi Cows’ Tried to Kill British Farmer|Tom Sykes|January 6, 2015|DAILY BEAST

Michael Steinbrick, a personal trainer with New York Sports Clubs, says he can always spot a newbie.
How to Survive the New Year ‘Gympocalypse’|Tim Teeman|January 6, 2015|DAILY BEAST
Marrying another Jew was not just a personal simcha (joy), but one for the community.
My Week on Jewish Tinder|Emily Shire|January 5, 2015|DAILY BEAST
It was hard not to take it as a sign, a personal comment on my own Jewish dating failings.
My Week on Jewish Tinder|Emily Shire|January 5, 2015|DAILY BEAST
The feeling for the tiny things probably has in it the warmth of a young personal sympathy.
Children's Ways|James Sully
Make a personal appeal to your men and Godley's to make a supreme effort to hold their ground.
Gallipoli Diary, Volume I|Ian Hamilton
The same two impulses are said to lie at the root of the elaborate art of personal adornment developed by savages.
Children's Ways|James Sully
One of the lower and mixed forms of artistic activity, in the case of the child and of the race alike, is personal adornment.
Children's Ways|James Sully
He respected her courage and obvious power to rise above the personal attitude of her sex.
Ancestors|Gertrude Atherton

British Dictionary definitions for personal shopper

personal shopper

noun

a person employed, esp by a shop, to accompany and advise customers on shopping trips or to select items for them

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