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- noun Plural form of
shopworker .
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Examples
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Some 3,000 shopworkers are likely to lose their jobs after administrators Ernst & Young were last week unable to find a buyer for Focus, which had 178 stores.
Focus DIY chain collapse sparks fury over role of private equity 2011
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Then there are the near 3 million shopworkers gritting their teeth as Now That's what I Call Xmas plays on in-store PA systems.
Hard times on the high street mean an unhappy Christmas at the Treasury 2011
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King won the backing of two unions, including the shopworkers 'union, Usdaw, which gave her £5,000, but she was looking primarily to ordinary party members to overwhelm Livingstone with a popular vote.
Ken Livingstone set to beat Oona King in Labour vote for London mayor 2010
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Anyway, I have already got separate funding from Usdaw the shopworkers' union which I am much happier with.
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Local shopworkers union Usdaw said it is "appalled" at the store closures and job losses.
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They showed around pictures of Odenkirk, interviewed airline personnel, shopworkers, porters, taxi dispatchers, and cabdrivers.
Pop Goes the Weasel Patterson, James, 1947- 1999
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They showed around pictures of Odenkirk, interviewed airline personnel, shopworkers, porters, taxi dispatchers, and cabdrivers.
Pop Goes The Weasel Patterson, James, 1947- 1999
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Life & Style Retail, which ran 91 stores across the UK, has made 440 staff redundant since they entered administration on June 10, a spokesman for the shopworkers' union Usdaw said.
WalesOnline - Home 2011
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At nearby Tottenham Hale retail park, stunned shopworkers arrived to find stores had been trashed and ransacked.
Reuters: Top News 2011
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Print Former Woolworths workers 'get £67m compensation' The shopworkers union Usdaw has said it has won compensation of up to £67m for more than 24,000 former Woolworths workers, made redundant when the retailer collapsed at the end of 2008.
BBC News - Home 2012
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