Bookshelver
noun
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Definitions
Noun
- 1 A person who places or arranges books on shelves in a library, etc.
"As a freshman at U.N.M., she’d had a work-study job as a bookshelver at the medical library—the worst job she’d ever had. It was the terminal quiet that had bugged her; trying to shelve books extra-quietly so as not to disturb anyone’s studying."
Example
More examples"As a freshman at U.N.M., she’d had a work-study job as a bookshelver at the medical library—the worst job she’d ever had. It was the terminal quiet that had bugged her; trying to shelve books extra-quietly so as not to disturb anyone’s studying."
Etymology
From book + shelver or bookshelf + -er.
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