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
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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
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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.