Word Meanings - SHOPWALKER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

One who walks about in a shop as an overseer and director. Cf. Floorwalker.

Related words: (words related to SHOPWALKER)

• ABOUT
  On the point or verge of; going; in act of. Paul was now aboutto open his mouth. Acts xviii. 14. 7. Concerning; with regard to; on account of; touching. "To treat about thy ransom." Milton. She must have her way about Sarah. Trollope. (more info)
• DIRECTORY
  Containing directions; enjoining; instructing; directorial.
• OVERSEERSHIP
  The office of an overseer.
• FLOORWALKER
  One who walks about in a large retail store as an overseer and director.
• DIRECTORSHIP
  The condition or office of a director; directorate.
• DIRECTORIAL
  1. Having the quality of a director, or authoritative guide; directive. 2. Pertaining to: director or directory; specifically, relating to the Directory of France under the first republic. See Directory, 3. Whoever goes to the directorial presence
• OVERSEER
  One who oversees; a superintendent; a supervisor; as, an overseer of a mill; specifically, one or certain public officers; as, an overseer of the poor; an overseer of highways.
• DIRECTORATE
  The office of director; also, a body of directors taken jointly.
• DIRECTOR
  A part of a machine or instrument which directs its motion or action. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, directs; one who regulates, guides, or orders; a manager or superintendent. In all affairs thou sole director. Swift. 2. One of a body
• ABOUT-SLEDGE
  The largest hammer used by smiths. Weale.
• ROUNDABOUTNESS
  The quality of being roundabout; circuitousness.
• GUINEA-PIG DIRECTOR
  A director who serves merely or mainly for the fee paid for attendance.
• RACEABOUT
  A small sloop-rigged racing yacht carrying about six hundred square feet of sail, distinguished from a knockabout by having a short bowsprit.
• STIRABOUT
  A dish formed of oatmeal boiled in water to a certain consistency and frequently stirred, or of oatmeal and dripping mixed together and stirred about in a pan; a hasty pudding.
• MARABOUT
  A Mohammedan saint; especially, one who claims to work cures supernaturally.
• HAULABOUT
  A bargelike vessel with steel hull, large hatchways, and coal transporters, for coaling war vessels from its own hold or from other colliers.
• WHEREABOUT; WHEREABOUTS
  1. About where; near what or which place; -- used interrogatively and relatively; as, whereabouts did you meet him Note: In this sense, whereabouts is the common form. 2. Concerning which; about which. "The object whereabout they are conversant."
• STAGE DIRECTOR
  One who prepares a play for production. He arranges the details of the stage settings, the business to be used, all stage effects, and instructs the actors, excepting usually the star, in the general interpretation of their parts.
• GADABOUT
  A gadder
• HEREA-BOUT; HEREABOUTS
  1. About this place; in this vicinity. 2. Concerning this.
• KNOCKABOUT
  1. Marked by knocking about or roughness. 2. Of noisy and violent character. 3. Characterized by, or suitable for, knocking about, or traveling or wandering hither and thither. 4. That does odd jobs; -- said of a class of hands or laborers on