shop floor

1. 1.

   workplace consisting of the part of a factory housing the machines

   “the productive work is done on the shop floor”

   Broaderworkplace

   Part offactory

Questions about shop floor

What does shop floor mean?

shop floor means "workplace consisting of the part of a factory housing the machines".

Is shop floor a common word?

shop floor is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.