shop floor

noun

British

: the area where products are made in a factory

proper safety procedures for the shop floor

also : the workers in a factory

managerial control of the shop floor

Examples of shop floor in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

On the shop floor, all staff are required to dress in head-to-toe black to match its counters and store interiors. —Hikmat Mohammed, WWD, 8 Aug. 2024

The Wichita facility has a working shop floor that uses data to drive actions. —Rick Barrett, Journal Sentinel, 7 Aug. 2024

In February, Burberry took over Harrods, transforming the shop floor into a luxury base camp, with outdoorsy accessories, an exclusive capsule collection and new blue check uniforms for the doormen. —Luisa Zargani, WWD, 25 July 2024

The range was fully carbon neutral from field to shop floor and all bags were created in Mulberry’s Somerset factories with leather from a tannery in Germany that measures, reduces and offsets its carbon emissions. —Samantha Conti, WWD, 3 Sep. 2019

Finally, much of the new science discussed in the Republic of Letters was abstract and complex, whereas the innovations that powered the Industrial Revolution were tangible improvements made on the shop floor by practical craftsmen. —Peer Vries, Foreign Affairs, 8 Dec. 2016

Boeing is not the only company in the aviation industry that’s lost a lot of experience on the shop floor. —Joel Rose, NPR, 27 June 2024

Store assistants know exactly where an item is in store, even if it hasn’t been fully processed and moved to the shop floor, VF says. —Glenn Taylor, Sourcing Journal, 25 June 2024

Even so, Gitlin’s not the guy to fix the mechanics on the shop floor. —Shawn Tully, Fortune, 13 Apr. 2024