Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An employee of a large store who supervises sales personnel and assists customers.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A person employed in a large retail shop to walk about the place, give information to customers, watch their conduct and that of employees, etc. Also called
shop-walker .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun U.S. One who walks about in a large retail store as an overseer and director.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun An employee in a large
shop (especially adepartment store ) who acts assupervisor to sales staff, and assists customers.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun an employee of a retail store who supervises sales personnel and helps with customer problems
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Examples
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At stops in Vicksburg, Greenville or Stovepipe Bend, Sam serves as a different kind of floorwalker, trying to keep order among the raucous, 500-plus crowds smelling of sweat and Sen-Sen and armed with knives or moonshine or both.
An Adventure Tale Haunted by Loss Julia Reed 2009
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When I entered I approached the "floorwalker," and handing him my sample, said:
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When I entered I approached the "floorwalker," and handing him my sample, said:
The Magic Egg and Other Stories Frank Richard Stockton 1868
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The floorwalker is our point of social contact with patrons. "
Where the Blue Begins Christopher Morley 1923
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It was the implacable standards of a department store floorwalker who insisted on being addressed as "Captain".
David Croft: farewell to a cherished voice of Britain and lost Empire | Observer editorial 2011
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After his return from Europe, Sam gets hired as a floorwalker in a New Orleans department store, a job he loves as much for its "light duty" overseeing the staff and helping customers as for its uniform of "snappy" suits.
An Adventure Tale Haunted by Loss Julia Reed 2009
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Garner unwittingly has inherited this trait, proudly showing her handful of pennies to a suspicious floorwalker at a 5 & 10 cent store, proving that she has a right to be there because she is a customer.
Archive 2009-02-01 Jacqueline T Lynch 2009
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Garner unwittingly has inherited this trait, proudly showing her handful of pennies to a suspicious floorwalker at a 5 & 10 cent store, proving that she has a right to be there because she is a customer.
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1945) Jacqueline T Lynch 2009
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His supervisor is a self-important floorwalker with a pince-nez and a morning suit.
Archive 2008-01-01 Jacqueline T Lynch 2008
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His supervisor is a self-important floorwalker with a pince-nez and a morning suit.
Safety Last (1923) Jacqueline T Lynch 2008
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