sales floor
sales floor noun: 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.
Noun
sales floor (plural sales floors)
- 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
- Synonyms:
- shop floor, floor
Synonyms of sales floor
Forms of sales floor
| plural | sales floors |
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Questions about sales floor
- What does sales floor mean?
- Sales floor means 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.
- What part of speech is sales floor?
- Sales floor is a noun.
- What is the plural of sales floor?
- The plural of sales floor is sales floors.
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