Definition of "floor-walker" [floor-walker]

• An employee in a large shop (especially a department store) who acts as supervisor to sales staff, and assists customers. (noun)

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• ""How much would you expect?" the captain was asking, -- a most unsealike captain, in Daughtry's opinion; rather, a spick-and - span, brisk little business-man or floor-walker just out of a bandbox."
• "Another review said of one of the Bond films that I looked like a "floor-walker who had been to Switzerland three times for a facelift"."
• "But all the day she suffered from an almost overwhelming desire to recite her sorrow to the world -- to the paying teller at the bank, to the elderly floor-walker in"