dependiente1

¹ = salesman [salesmen, -pl.], shop assistant, clerk, shopkeeper [shop-keeper], attendant.

Ex. It does not sanction subsuming saleswomen under salesmen.

Ex. A table is set up in a classroom, books are laid out on it by pupil 'shop assistants' supervised by a rota of teachers, and regular opening hours are laid down and adhered to.

Ex. The cataloguer is expected to find to correct form and write it on a worksheet, so that it can be entered by the clerk doing the keypunching.

Ex. A librarian should be as unwilling to allow an enquirer to leave the library with his question unanswered as a shop-keeper is to have a customer go out of his store without making a purchase.

Ex. Other libraries allow bags to be brought in but an attendant is employed to check the contents as the reader leaves the library.

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* dependiente de librería = bookstore clerk.