Meaning

2 senses
  1. The public area of a retail store, as distinct from rooms for staff such as offices.

  2. The area of a factory or workshop where the operatives work, as distinct from the administrative areas.

    Produktionsstätte, Fabrikhalle

More definitions
  • workplace consisting of the part of a factory housing the machines

Examples

2 sentences
  1. You must wear a mask on the shop floor.

  2. Adriano heard a loud sound echo from across the shopping floor.

Translations

5 languages
Deutsch
By meaning 1
area of a factory:

Forms

plural: shop floors

Synonyms

2 synonyms

Word family

1 related words
Relatedcoalface

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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