shopmate

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

shop +‎ -mate

Noun[edit]

shopmate (plural shopmates)

  1. A person working in the same shop.
    • 1868, The London City Mission Magazine, volume XXXIII, page 33:
      Of the latter class many would come because they would not be chaffed by their shopmates for going into a theatre on Sunday, though they would be most fearfully if they went to church or chapel.

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