floor
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3.2
- noun
- /flɔr/
:
planta
- I'm the best guy you have on the floor.
- shop floor
- trading floor
- factory floor
Other questions from the floor, Please wait for the bike.
- Other questions from the floor, Please wait for the bike.
- And you're the, you're the, you're the second most senior person on the floor in here after Nick.
- Nurses are being pulled off the floor if they don't have a vaccine, vaccine passport.
Examples
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No one dominates the floor or becomes solely responsible for managing the interaction.
Academic text (2001) -
Everybody on the floor.
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I have not seen anyone on the second floor.
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There was no one in sight on the laboratory floor, nor in the office when she went in.
Fiction book (1993) -
We've got to get everybody off this floor now.
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Major Nasypany, report to the operations floor immediately.
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It even leaked down to the first floor.
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After hours of little action, we've witnessed a flurry of activity... on the 20th floor of the Chicago administration building.
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Maguire, Jude, and the others on the floor were scrambling for weapons.
Fiction book (1992) -
During the meeting, everyone on the floor was eager to share their ideas.
Idioms
Compounds
65
1.1
The floor at ground level in American English and the floor above the ground floor in British English
- Specialized
7
4.6
A large open area in a stock or commodity market where traders buy and sell
- Specialized
3
3.4
The area in a factory where workers use machines to make or assemble goods
- Formal
2
6.8
A person chosen to speak for and guide their party in meetings where laws are made
A material like carpet or wood placed on the floor to protect it and make it look nicer
- Specialized
A narrow high platform at the side of a stage where crew use ropes to move scenery above it
A low floor between the ground floor and the next floor that overlooks the space below
- Jargon
The right to enter a parliament or assembly as a non-member and speak during a meeting
How Crowded
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1.0
220
3.2
Surface Forms
Etymology
Floor can mean the people who work or are present on a particular level because those people stand and work on that level's flat surface, like the trading floor. So the word came to mean the group of people in that space.