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stock boy

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noun
a boy or man responsible for replenishing stock, as on the shelves of a grocery store.
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How to use stock boy in a sentence

  • From the time he was seventeen he had been employed in a large china-importing house, starting as a stock boy.

    Half Portions|Edna Ferber
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