shop-walker

See also: shopwalker

English

Alternative forms

• shopwalker

Noun

shop-walker (plural shop-walkers)

1. (British) A retail store floor supervisor.
   • 1925 July – 1926 May, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “(please specify the chapter number)”, in The Land of Mist (eBook no. 0601351h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg Australia, published April 2019:

     Small trades-folk, male and female shopwalkers, better class artisans, lower middle-class women worn with household cares, occasional young folk in search of a sensation - these were the impressions which the audience conveyed to the trained observation of Malone.

   • 1981, P. L. Travers, chapter 11, in Mary Poppins, revised edition:

     The shop-walkers behaved curiously, too.

Synonyms

• floorwalker (US)