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sales floor en · NOUN

Meanings

  1. The part of a business devoted to retail activities, such as a showroom or selling area of a shop or department store, usually manned by sales staff and having free public access with goods on display.
    • Customers carry clipboards to record stock numbers as they wander about the 3,000-square-foot sales floor, testing items that are displayed, one each, on wooden shelves and tables. 1981 April 4, “Thriving on do-it yourselfers”, in New York Times, retrieved 23 Jun 2015:
    • Tokyo's popular Isetan department store devotes an entire sales floor to men's cosmetics. 2005 October 31, Ling Woo Liu, “Mirror, Mirror...”, in Time, retrieved 23 Jun 2015:

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sales floors Number=Plur lexicographic

Synonyms

shop floor · floor