"stockboy" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1938, Xavier Herbert, chapter VI, in Capricornia, page 85:",
          "text": "He spoke quietly, in a rather cultured voice, saying, \"Your brother Mark gave Jock one of his halfcaste piccaninnies for a stock-boy. […]\"",
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        "A young stockman raising livestock."
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          "ref": "1991, Alex Kotlowitz, There are no Children Here, page 194:",
          "text": "He had graduated from Cregier High School two months earlier and quickly landed a job as a stockboy at Order from Horder, a stationery store chain.",
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          "text": "Excuse me, but is this huge application necessary? Listing job experience — what experience is crucial for being a stock boy?",
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          "text": "When an aunt who was an actress helped him find a job in the William Morris mailroom, where would-be agents traditionally start, the salary was not enough to support him, so he took a second job working as a stockboy at a Macy’s in New Jersey.",
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          "ref": "2013, Arthur Danto, chapter 1, in What Art Is, New Haven: Yale University Press, page 36:",
          "text": "A marvelous photograph by Fred McDarrah shows Andy [Warhol] standing among his boxes, like a stock boy in the stockroom, his pasty face looking out at us.",
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