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单词 stock-keeper
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Definition of stock-keeper in English:

stock-keeper

noun
  • 1A person who is in charge of the goods or merchandise in a warehouse or for a company.

    he was a stock-keeper and later a machinist in a paper factory
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Soon after I finished this, I was told I had passed, and would be made a stock-keeper.
    • In 1812 he was elected a stock-keeper of the Stationers ' Company, in 1825 a member of the court of assistants, and in 1833, master of the company.
    • He listed himself as single, was an only child and his civilian occupation was stockkeeper.
    • Described by the stock-keeper as a steady and reliable worker, Yvonne has done more than one job in the despatch department during the year she has been at East Tilbury.
    • The job involves being continually in touch with stock keepers to ensure that the deliveries are being done promptly.
    • I was an assistant stock-keeper in the wholesale stock room and well known on the Bata Estate where I lived.
    • I'm talking, of course, about enterprise-class devices: the scanners that grocery clerks use to track inventory, the handhelds that stockkeepers take into the warehouse.
  • 2Australian NZ historical A person who looks after livestock.

    only a trained and competent stock-keeper should perform the dehorning of cattle
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Corporal Shiners of the 40th Regiment, a police constable and three stockmen pursued Aborigines who had killed a white stock-keeper.
    • The quarrel of the natives with the Europeans was daily aggravated by every kind of injury committed against the defenceless Natives, by the stock keepers and sealers.
    • There are not less than eight thousand of these animals killed annually; by parties stationed in the interior, by stockkeepers, bushrangers, and others.
    • In 1869, William Hone, stockkeeper at Overland Corner married Sarah Marey of Alberton.
    • He advocated arming convict stock-keepers.
    • An unknown and unknowable number of Aborigines had been killed by the so-called 'borderers' - the stockkeepers in remote regions, the sealers, the timber-cutters and the escaped convicts.
    • Tamed foxes that are released are a problem for poultry farmers and other stock-keepers as their lack of fear enables them to take fowl during daytime, near to human activity.
    • Ryan originally claimed that stock-keepers of the Van Diemen's Land Company gave Aborigines poisoned flour.
 
 
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