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shop assistant

noun British.
  1. a store clerk.
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Origin of shop assistant

First recorded in 1895–1900
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Historical Examples of shop assistant

  • "That's what he's there for," she said of the shop-assistant.

    The Foolish Lovers

    St. John G. Ervine

  • You were a shop-assistant yourself, Tweddle, only a short while ago!

  • She guessed that the shop-assistant must have found it, and placed it conspicuously on the counter.

    Hilda Lessways

    Arnold Bennett

  • At Welchpool the wife of a shopkeeper poisoned her husband, and the same night eloped with the shop-assistant.

  • She was a shop-assistant, but standing behind the counter gave her varicose veins; and she went to Dublin as nursery-governess.

    The Lake

    George Moore

British Dictionary definitions for shop assistant

shop assistant

noun
  1. a person who serves in a shop
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