shop assistant


nounBritish.
  1. a store clerk.

Origin of shop assistant

1
First recorded in 1895–1900

Words Nearby shop assistant

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How to use shop assistant in a sentence

  • I am to be Sophys fellow shop-assistant, continued Mary Kingsford; not of course at first at such good wages as she gets.

    Recollections of a Policeman | William Russell (aka Thomas Waters)
  • Nine till five are the accepted hours for the clerk; half-past nine till six for the shop-assistant.

    Town Life in Australia | R. E. N. (Richard) Twopeny

British Dictionary definitions for shop assistant

shop assistant

noun
  1. a person who serves in a shop

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