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In 1957, I was a 16-year-old office boy for the Dodgers.
Marv Albert

Meaning of "office boy" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF OFFICE BOY

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF OFFICE BOY

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Office boy is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE OFFICE BOY

office
office automation
office bearer
office block
office hours
office job
office junior
office manager
Office of Fair Trading
Office of Management and Budget
office party
office politics
office space
office work
office worker
officeholder
officer
officer of arms
officer of the day
officer of the guard

WORDS THAT END LIKE OFFICE BOY

altar boy
baby boy
birthday boy
black boy
cabin boy
drummer boy
errand boy
fair-haired boy
golden boy
messenger boy
old boy
pretty boy
rent boy
shepherd boy
shoeshine boy
teddy boy
the boy
whipping boy
white-haired boy
wide boy

Synonyms and antonyms of office boy in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «office boy» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF OFFICE BOY

Find out the translation of office boy to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of office boy from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «office boy» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

办公室男孩
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

office boy
570 millions of speakers

English

office boy
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

कार्यालय लड़का
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

مكتب الصبي
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

офис мальчик
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

office boy
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

অফিস ছেলে
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

garçon de bureau
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

budak pejabat
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Laufjunge
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

オフィスの少年
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

사무실 소년
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Kantor bocah
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

người tạp dịch
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

அலுவலக சிறுவன்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

कार्यालयीन मुलगा
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Ofis Elemanı
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

fattorino
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

biuro chłopiec
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

офіс хлопчик
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

băiat birou
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

αγόρι γραφείου
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

kantoor seuntjie
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

kontor pojke
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

kontoret boy
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of office boy

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «OFFICE BOY»

The term «office boy» is regularly used and occupies the 83.206 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about office boy

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3 QUOTES WITH «OFFICE BOY»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word office boy.
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Marv Albert
In 1957, I was a 16-year-old office boy for the Dodgers.
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George Carey
An office boy in London was the lowest of the low. The office boy was the tea boy. He would be the dog's body: It means someone who would do anything at all. I was quite prepared for that and enjoyed it.
3
Douglass North
My father had not even completed high school when he started as an office boy working for the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, and I am not sure that my mother completed high school.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «OFFICE BOY»

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Office Boy's Digest; Cullings from the American, English, ...
General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1904 Original Publisher: The Michie company Subjects: Law Humor / General Humor / Topic / Business
B. A. Milburn, 2009
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Love Sonnets of an Office Boy
Samuel Ellsworth Kiser. Love Sonnets of an Office Boy Samuel Ellsworth Kiser Oh, if you only knowed how much I like To Love Sonnets of an Office Boy.
Samuel Ellsworth Kiser
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Chicano Chicanery
He never ate downtown, because, he always said, Who can afford to eat out on an office boy's salary? She remembered how he had told her, with bright blue eyes, how he had wanted to go to Boston to be a bartender in a sports bar — just  ...
Daniel Chacón
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THE BOOK OF BUSINESS ETIQUETTE:
The Office Boy. If the office boy in a big business house where much of the work is done at a white-hot tension—the office boy in a busy Wall Street office during the peak of the day's rush, for example—could write his intimate impressions they  ...
NELLA HENNEY, 2014
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The Book of Business Etiquette:
The Office Boy. If the office boy in a big business house where much of the work is done at a white-hot tension—the office boy in a busy Wall Street office during the peak of the day's rush, for example—could write his intimate impressions they  ...
Nella Nenney
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Office Boy's Digest: Cullings from the American, English, ...
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923.
‎2012
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The History of Big Safari
OFFICE BOY/RIVET BRASS The RIVET BRASS program was initially performed under the designator CALL 100, and known in its early days as OFFICE BOY. Ling-TEMCO-Vought (LTV), BIG SAFARI's contractor at Majors Field in Greenville , ...
Colonel Bill Grimes, USAF Retired, 2014
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The Book of Business Etiquette
Famous for good humor and generosity as a general thing, he is, for all that, at his worst moments the terror of the office boy's life. Nervous, worried, tired, and exasperated, he is likely to “take it out” on the office boy if there is no one else at ...
Nella Braddy Henney, 2013
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Business Classics:
The Office Boy. If the office boy in a big business house where much of the work is done at a white-hot tension—the office boy in a busy Wall Street office during the peak of the day's rush, for example—could write his intimate impressions they  ...
Publishthis, 2013
10
Famous Americans: 22 Short Plays for the Classroom
Nellie Bly and an office boy stand outside Joseph Pulitzers office. NARRATOR 1: With factory owners and city officials threatening the newspaper, Nellie's boss George Madden decided it was best to let things calm down. He told Nellie to write ...
Liza Schafer, 1994

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «OFFICE BOY»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term office boy is used in the context of the following news items.
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Blake's 40-year Elders journey
44 years, having joined Primaries in Brisbane in 1971 as an office boy, before embarking on his career with Australian Estates in 1975, which ... «Queensland Country Life, Jul 15»
2
Daring robbery attempt: One stabbed in the neck
... cashier of Renuka Cooperative Urban society, located on Relief Road Bhavesh Dabhi, driver Mahendra and office boy Rajesh loaded cash ... «Times of India, Jul 15»
3
Silence the hate mongers
The man is an office boy, aged 52, blind in one eye and living with his wife and daughter in a three-bedroom apartment. He turned over one ... «The Star Online, Jul 15»
4
Birthplace of iconic trains given listed status
That started the ball rolling,” said Barry, who started work at the Hexthorpe Road site in 1958 as an office boy. He spent the next eighteen ... «South Yorkshire Times, Jul 15»
5
The shops of old Penicuik – part 3
When I was office boy at Valleyfield paper mills between 1944 and 1946, I had a Gladstone bag that I used when taking petty cash to the ... «MidLothian Advertiser, Jul 15»
6
Vale Reg James
Reg James, who started work as the office boy and ended up as General Manager of Grace Gibson Productions passed away peacefully last ... «Radioinfo, Jul 15»
7
Office boy held for bid to extort Rs2 crore from woman advocate
The Malabar Hill police have arrested an office boy, who allegedly tried to extort Rs2 crore from a woman advocate working in the same office. «Daily News & Analysis, Jul 15»
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Emirati volunteers learn value of community work during Ramadan
When I am at work I try to help those who might need it, like the office boy for example, and not just in work, anywhere I am, even if I am driving ... «Yahoo! Maktoob News, Jul 15»
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Four degrees in hand, he still cleans Mumbai's sewers
He also worked as a security guard and an office boy. It was only when his father suffered a stroke that Yadav took over his job. "Even to get ... «Times of India, Jul 15»
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Granddaughter of 'pioneer residents of Hazleton' reminisces about …
He attended Walnut Street School, worked as a breaker boy in the Hazle Mines and became an office boy at the law offices of P.V. Weaver and ... «Standard Speaker, Jul 15»

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