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shop assistant

noun

British.
  1. a store clerk.



shop assistant

noun

  1. a person who serves in a shop

“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
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Word History and Origins

Origin of shop assistant1

First recorded in 1895–1900
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Example Sentences

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

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They categorise jobs into five groups; the lowest two of which are considered working class and include occupations such as mechanic, electrician, shop assistant, labourer, cleaner and waiter.

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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.

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"We've seen shop assistants be, you know, verbally abused, physically abused," she says.

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Hard Truths centres on Pansy, a woman who seems constantly angry at the world, regularly getting into scrapes with everyone from shop assistants to her dentist.

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