shop assistant
(UK, Ireland) An employee in a shop, a shopkeeper.
Definitions
(UK, Ireland) An employee in a shop, a shopkeeper.
Comments
Used in
Have a better definition?
Add your own interpretation of "shop assistant".
🇬🇧About British & Irish slang slang
UK and Irish slang — Cockney, Scouse, Geordie, Yorkshire, Glaswegian, Brummie, Welsh, West Country, plus Irish English. Centuries of regional dialects feeding into modern British and Irish street talk.
See all British & Irish slang slang on Slangora.
Tags
Other words near "shop assistant" (S)
Browse all slang words starting with S.
Related terms
People also read
Semantically related
- shop-walker63%
(British) A retail store floor supervisor.
- deshopper61%
(chiefly, UK, social science) A person who practises deshopping.
- shop-walker60%
Shop-walker is a British term for a floor supervisor in a retail store — a member of staff who walked the shop floor directing customers to the right departments and overseeing sales assistants. The role was a feature of large Victorian and Edwardian department stores, where the shop-walker was an imposing figure of retail authority. The term is largely obsolete, replaced by 'floor manager' or 'department supervisor,' but survives in historical accounts of retail culture and Victoriana.
- stockist59%
(UK, Irish, Commonwealth) A retailer or distributor who has stocks of a certain type of item for sale.
- shop-bouncer59%
(UK, slang, obsolete) A shoplifter's accomplice who distracts the salesperson.