shopmate

English

Etymology

shop +‎ -mate

Noun

shopmate (plural shopmates)

1. A person working in the same shop.
   • 1868, The London City Mission Magazine, volume XXXIII, page 33:

     Of the latter class many would come because they would not be chaffed by their shopmates for going into a theatre on Sunday, though they would be most fearfully if they went to church or chapel.

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