shop floor
Britishnoun
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the part of a factory housing the machines and men directly involved in production
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workers, esp factory workers organized in a union
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( as modifier )
shop-floor protest
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Example Sentences
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Suggested improvements are displayed on large boards that everyone on the shop floor can see.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2026
Supervisors regularly walk the shop floor doing a “Gemba walk,” a Japanese term for “the actual place” where work happens.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2026
Next has won an appeal allowing it to keep paying warehouse workers a higher hourly rate than shop floor staff in a long running battle over equal pay.
From BBC ● Sep. 7, 2026
Many worked on the shop floor at Harrods in London or were hired as assistants at his various businesses including the Ritz hotel in Paris.
From Barron's ● Aug. 2, 2026
From the window, you can see that the shop floor and all the lamps are pumpkin orange, but the counters and tables are white.
From "Invisible Inkling" by Emily Jenkins
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