Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A room in which is kept a reserved stock of materials or goods ready for use or sale.
- noun A room, usually in a hotel, where travelers for business-houses show their samples and take orders.
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Examples
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In a dream he stepped from the elevator into the stock-room, and walking to an unused aisle, sat down on a box, covering his face with his hands.
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Airline reservation clerks, stock-room personnel, machine operators, and repairmen may be able to function quite adequately on the job by listening rather than reading, as a voice from the machine tells them, step by step, what to do next or how to replace a broken part.
Why Nothing Works Marvin Harris 1981
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Airline reservation clerks, stock-room personnel, machine operators, and repairmen may be able to function quite adequately on the job by listening rather than reading, as a voice from the machine tells them, step by step, what to do next or how to replace a broken part.
Why Nothing Works Marvin Harris 1981
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Airline reservation clerks, stock-room personnel, machine operators, and repairmen may be able to function quite adequately on the job by listening rather than reading, as a voice from the machine tells them, step by step, what to do next or how to replace a broken part.
Why Nothing Works Marvin Harris 1981
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Airline reservation clerks, stock-room personnel, machine operators, and repairmen may be able to function quite adequately on the job by listening rather than reading, as a voice from the machine tells them, step by step, what to do next or how to replace a broken part.
Why Nothing Works Marvin Harris 1981
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He went through to the stock-room behind, pressed a button, and an elevator door opened in a rather surprising manner.
Long Ago, Far Away Murray Leinster 1935
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He may welcome the sketches in book form; he may turn scornfully from them and leave them to moulder in the stock-room of Messrs. Covici-McGee.
A Thousand and One Afternoons in Chicago Ben Hecht 1929
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Out in the stock-room, under her supervision, there was scientifically packed into sample-trunks and cases a line of Featherloom skirts and knickers calculated to dazzle
Emma McChesney and Co. Edna Ferber 1926
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It was her dozenth visit to the stock-room that morning.
Roast Beef, Medium Edna Ferber 1926
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She flitted about the great barnlike structure like a contented child, insisted upon displaying the trim stock-room to Paul, demanded a demonstration of the switchboard, spread her pretty hands over the whirling water that showed under the glass of the water-wheels, and hung, fascinated, over the governors.
Poor, Dear Margaret Kirby Kathleen Thompson Norris 1923
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