greeter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: greeters
Etymology: From Middle English greter, gretter, equivalent to greet + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Walmart greeter
text: The greeter is standing most or all of the time, and the weather may be unpleasant at that time of the year. If the greeter can bring a folding chair to sit on in slow periods, so much the better.
ref: 1976, Daniel M. Gaby, Merle H. Treusch, Election Campaign Handbook, page 303:
text: Plaintiff testified that the store greeter was talking in a loud and rude manner.
ref: 1986, James Cleary, Prosecuting the Shoplifter: A Loss Prevention Strategy, page 220:
text: The greeter makes immediate eye contact with customers, making them feel important, and unknown guests can be addressed as they enter to determine their purpose, which also discourages robbers.
ref: 1995, Paul Seibert, Facilities Planning and Design for Financial Institutions, page 163:
text: At the beginning of the test, the greeter welcomes the test user to the test facility and carries out all the necessary pretest activities, which include ice-breaking, explaining the purpose and format of the test, obtaining informed consent, and perhaps administering a pre-test questionnaire.
ref: 2004, Daniel D. McCracken, Rosalee Jean Wolfe, User-centered Website Development, page 141:
text: What do I do if someone faints during the worship service? It's only natural as an usher or greeter to have questions like these.
ref: 2014, Annette Schroeder, Welcome to Our Church:
text: But it is the combination of the self-consciously vintage HMV sign – with all its vinyl associations – and the bowler-hatted man at the kerbside (a now redundant Oxford Street “greeter”) that properly opens up those possibilities.
ref: 2024 January 14, Tim Adams, “The big picture: layers of nostalgia on London’s Oxford Street”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: A person who greets people on their arrival.
examples: text: Visitors are matched with a volunteer Greeter according to shared interests and languages spoken, and their 3-4 hours together is a combination of what the Greeter has to offer and the visitor wants to know.
ref: 1998, Proceedings from the Australian Tourism and Hospitality Research Conference, page 208:
text: The greeter system — a free service provided by volunteers — is popular in several cities throughout the world.
ref: 2013, John A. Richardson, Grey Nomads, page 75:
text: This tourism is based on tourists' quest for an 'authentic experience', by spreading throughout the entire city (admittedly with a predilection for gentrifying neighbourhoods), seeking 'off the beaten track' (but always secure) itineraries (Djament-Tran and Guinand, 2014; Maitland, 2013; Maitland and Newman, 2014), going for a walk with a local 'greeter' and, above all, staying in a local's home.
ref: 2017, Maria Gravari-Barbas, Sandra Guinand, Tourism and Gentrification in Contemporary Metropolises, page 54:
text: Many greeter associations now exist across the world.
ref: 2021, Isabelle Frochot, A Practical Guide to Managing Tourist Experiences:
topics: lifestyle
tourism
transport
glosses: A volunteer who shows tourists around their home city or region for free.