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stocker

stocker

1 2.0
A person who puts products on store shelves and keeps them full
  • noun
  • /ˈstɑːkər/
  • US
translation icon : reponedor
  • As a stocker at the supermarket, her job involves organizing the aisles neatly.
  • grocery stocker
  • store stocker

Examples

  • I never understood why cashiers and shelf-stockers need a union.

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  • Forget college—you don't even need a high school diploma to be a stocker or a cashier.

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  • 16 -- Worked as a cashier/stocker at a dollar store

    Blog text (9)
  • I am just a level one Night Stocker at the bottom, and that's what I choose to be, so I take pride in what I do!

    Blog text (13)
  • Attention all units in the vicinity of Crenshaw and Stocker.

  • Because he is walking instead of riding the bus, he becomes the victim of bullies who steal his salary as he walks home from his job as a stocker in a grocery store.

    Academic text (2002)
  • At fifteen, he wore store-bought clothes and was already working part-time in the local grocery and feed store as a stocker and cashier.

    Fiction book (2001)
  • We have a meeting before we go to work (I work overnights as a stocker), and supposedly the store manager was very displeased with his "walk."

    Blog text (34)
  • They examined the Menards' flier and paged a stocker to price check the insulation.

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  • The stocker made sure the shelves were filled with fresh produce every morning.

How Thorough

auditor
  • Specialized
52 4.8
stocktaker
  • UK
6.3
stocker
  • US
1 2.0

Surface Forms

stocker singular
stockers plural

Morphology

stocker = stock (transparent) = stock + er

Regular agentive formation from the verb 'stock' meaning to supply shelves, so learners who know the verb will infer 'stocker' = someone who stocks shelves.

Etymology

Stocker comes from stock, which means 'goods' or 'supplies', plus the ending -er that makes a word mean 'a person who does something'. So a stocker is the person who keeps a shop or supermarket full by putting items on the shelves.