Meaning & use
Shop floor
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The area of a factory or workshop where goods are manufactured, or the production workers employed there collectively.
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Management rarely visited the shop floor to see conditions firsthand.
Morale on the shop floor improved once new safety equipment arrived.
A note on using this word
Chiefly British usage; American English more often says "factory floor" or "production floor."
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factory floor
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