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bookshelver en · NOUN

Pronunciation

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Etymology

From book + shelver or bookshelf + -er.

Meanings

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. 1995, A[aron] A[lbert] Carr, chapter 40, in Eye Killers (American Indian Literature and Critical Studies Series; 13), Norman, Okla.: University of Oklahoma Press, →ISBN, page 182:

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