stockman

stockman
/stok"meuhn/ or, for 3, /-man'/, n., pl. stockmen /-meuhn/ or, for 3, /-men'/.
1. U.S. and Australia. a person who raises livestock.
2. a person employed on a stock farm.
3. a person in charge of a stock of goods, as in a warehouse.
[1800-10; STOCK + MAN1]

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