shop assistant

American

noun

British.

a store clerk.

shop assistant British

noun

a person who serves in a shop

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Noun Inflected Forms

shop assistants

plural

Etymology

Origin of shop assistant

First recorded in 1895–1900

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shop assistant

Down the road at a souvenir store, shop assistant Ms Chen agrees.

From BBC ● Aug. 25, 2025

A shop assistant also said that she heard a lot of shouting and screaming and that people started running in the direction of the incident, the paper reported.

From BBC ● Mar. 27, 2025

A shop assistant levels up on a smartphone game.

From Reuters ● Nov. 16, 2023

When the shop assistant from Bangor, County Down, first went missing, police said they could not rule out a crime.

From BBC ● Jul. 22, 2023

Turner saw a woman with a little girl at her side talking to a shop assistant who displayed a different shoe in the palm of each hand.

From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan

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