Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

sales floor

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.68 in modern English

Syllables: sales floor
IPA

13

Scrabble Score

10

Letters

1

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

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.

Example Sentences

"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."
"Tokyo's popular Isetan department store devotes an entire sales floor to men's cosmetics."

Inflected Forms

sales floors (plural)

Synonyms

shop floor floor

Questions

What does sales floor mean?: 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.

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