Shopfloor

Word SHOPFLOOR
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Definitions and meanings of "Shopfloor"

What do we mean by shopfloor?

The area of a factory or workshop where the operatives work; used especially to distinguish the productive part of a factory from the administrative part.

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The word "shopfloor" in example sentences

The show follows Paul Fisher, chief operating officer of Jockey Club Racecourses, which owns Carlisle, as he joins 'shopfloor' staff undercover. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Returning in 2001, he worked in a dual commercial/technical role that necessitated almost unrestricted access to both the 'shopfloor' engineering teams and upper tiers of Symbian's management. ❋ Guest Author (2010)

He extended the shopfloor into his backyard and bought the three houses next door, so that by the start of the 20th century four houses and their gardens had been turned into workshops that employed about 60 men, women and boys. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Vanessa arrived on the shopfloor posing as Julia, a recent divorcee, and explained her camera-entourage with the rather flimsy backstory that she was the subject of a documentary about people who had been out of work for a long time. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Throughout March and April, our staff were going into two local Tesco stores, befriending, talking to and listening to shopfloor staff, security staff and cleaners. ❋ Unknown (2011)

The glass front of the Bond Street store is lined from floor to ceiling with a monogrammed golden chainmail that filters a sunny light on to the shopfloor. ❋ Unknown (2010)

After training at the local art school, he worked as a draughtsman in a furniture factory, valuable experience which gave him a permanent rapport with production processes and with the technicians on the shopfloor. ❋ Fiona MacCarthy (2010)

I started on the shopfloor as a nurse and midwife. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Perched on a soapbox to address a precision engineering factory's shopfloor, he opened his arms out wide in a gesture of embrace. ❋ Marc Nash (2010)

The figures will fuel the controversy over the size of directors' pensions and raise concerns about the yawning gap between bosses and the shopfloor. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Extensive shopfloor employee participation is the rule in all three cases. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Why waste your damns on that sort of thing, when there are things like this to give a damn about — solidarity expressed through free market action, and fight-to-win unionism carried out through free association on the shopfloor, without the permission of bosses or bureaucrats: ❋ Unknown (2009)

Mr. Zuma has certainly proven himself a remarkably resilient politician, even if he has earned the reputation of being all things to all people, telling shopfloor audiences one thing and their bosses another, with little indication of a coherent vision. ❋ Mark Gevisser (2009)

Bleeding to death on the shopfloor, I would have joyfully gone to meet my maker knowing that I didn't have to spend another second in the company of such hideous cuntery. ❋ Unknown (2008)

The company distributes shares annually according to length of service to everyone from the director to the assistants on the shopfloor. ❋ John M (2007)

A key to further progress for the co-operatives – to further reducing the basic agency dilemma and thereby enhancing their competitive advantage - appears to be to make democratic and participative practices a lived experience as much on the shopfloor as at the governance level. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Beyond the shopfloor, Cosatu has throughout its history, been an integral part of the struggle against oppression and exploitation in this country. ❋ Unknown (2006)

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