different between stockboy vs stockman

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stock +? boy

stockboy (plural stockboys)

A young stockman.
- 1938, Xavier Herbert, Capricornia, Chapter VI, p. 85, [1]
  He spoke quietly, in a rather cultured voice, saying, "Your brother Mark gave Jock one of his halfcaste piccaninnies for a stock-boy. […] " (cf. stockman sense 1)
- 2013, Arthur Danto, What Art Is, New Haven: Yale University Press, Chapter 1, p. 36,
  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.

stock +? -man

stockman (plural stockmen)

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