shopwalker

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shopwalker

(ˈʃɒpˌwɔːkə)
n
1. (Commerce) Brit a person employed by a departmental store to supervise sales personnel, assist customers, etc. US equivalent: floorwalker
2. (Professions) Brit a person employed by a departmental store to supervise sales personnel, assist customers, etc. US equivalent: floorwalker
Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014
ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Noun1.shopwalker - an employee of a retail store who supervises sales personnel and helps with customer problems; "a floorwalker is called a shopwalker in Britain"
employee - a worker who is hired to perform a job
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Translations
caporeparto

shopwalker

[ˈʃɒpˌwɔːkəʳ] N (Brit) → vigilante/a m/f
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shopwalker

[ˈʃɒpˌwɔːkəʳ] n (Brit) ncaporeparto m/f
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Paul's Cathedral if I could, but I could no more scoop a till when the shopwalker wasn't looking than I could bag the apples out of an old woman's basket.
These are mainly words for country-specific things, but there are also lots of different words for the same thing: an American pharmacist is a British chemist, a British shopwalker is an American floor-walker Yet for all the differences it's arguably true that, thanks to television satellites and the Internet, American and British English are closer than they've ever been.
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