shop assistant


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shop assistant

n
1. (Professions) a person who serves in a shop
2. (Commerce) a person who serves in a shop
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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Noun1.shop assistant - a salesperson in a storeshop assistant - a salesperson in a store    
sales rep, sales representative, salesperson - a person employed to represent a business and to sell its merchandise (as to customers in a store or to customers who are visited)
shop boy - a young male shop assistant
shop girl - a young female shop assistant
Britain, Great Britain, U.K., UK, United Kingdom, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland - a monarchy in northwestern Europe occupying most of the British Isles; divided into England and Scotland and Wales and Northern Ireland; `Great Britain' is often used loosely to refer to the United Kingdom
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Translations
بائِع مُساعِد في مَحَل تِجاريمُسَاعِدٌ في مَتْجَر
prodavač-ka
butiksassistentekspedient
myymäläapulainen
prodavač
bolti eladó
sölumaîur; starfsmaîur
店員
점원
prodajalec
affärsbiträde
พนักงานขายของ
người bán hàng

shop assistant

n (Brit) → commesso/a
Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

shop

(ʃop) noun
1. a place where goods are sold. a baker's shop.
2. a workshop, or a place where any kind of industry is carried on. a machine-shop.
verbpast tense, past participle shopped
(often go shopping) to visit shops for the purpose of buying. We shop on Saturdays; She goes shopping once a week.
ˈshopper noun
1. a person who is shopping. The street was full of shoppers.
2. a large bag used when shopping.
ˈshopping noun
1. the activity of buying goods in shops. Have you a lot of shopping to do?; (also adjective) a shopping-list.
2. the goods bought. He helped her carry her shopping home; (also adjective) a shopping-basket / bag.
shop assistant (American ˈsalesclerk, *clerk)
a person employed in a shop to serve customers.
shop floor
the workers in a factory or workshop, as opposed to the management.
ˈshopkeeper noun
a person who runs a shop of his own.
ˈshoplifter noun
a person who steals goods from a shop.
ˈshoplifting noun
shopping centre
a place, often a very large building, where there is a large number of different shops.
shopping mall noun
(also mall) (American) a shopping centre in which traffic is usually not allowed.
shop around
to compare prices, quality of goods etc at several shops before buying anything.
Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary © 2006-2013 K Dictionaries Ltd.

shop assistant

مُسَاعِدٌ في مَتْجَر prodavač butiksassistent Verkäufer υπάλληλος καταστήματος dependiente, vendedor myymäläapulainen vendeur prodavač commesso 店員 점원 winkelassistent butikkassistent sprzedawca assistente de loja, balconista продавец affärsbiträde พนักงานขายของ satış elemanı người bán hàng 店员
Multilingual Translator © HarperCollins Publishers 2009
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I could even get her a place as lady's maid or shop assistant, which requires better English.
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A FORMER shop assistant who stole from a family-run business has avoided jail.
A ROBBER who pointed a sawn-off shotgun at a shop assistant's face during a hold-up is being hunted.
CCTV images have been released after a shop assistant was attacked and a cashier was threatened with a screwdriver during a supermarket robbery.
But he fled the scene empty-handed after a brave shop assistant refused to hand over any money.
POLICE are investigating a robbery in which a suspect threatened a shop assistant before making off with cash.
While her friend was distracting attention of shop assistant, the woman quickly took the poor box on the counter.