office boy
Example Sentences
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When he was demobbed in 1946, he said he got the only job he could: "office boy" at the Inland Revenue office in Luton, where his wife worked at the Vauxhall car factory.
From BBC ● Jul. 1, 2025
Mr. Hamilton, who had no interest in following his father into the British diplomatic service, entered films at 17 as a studio office boy.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 21, 2016
His assistant and only employee, besides an office boy, was his fiancée, twenty-year-old Blanche Wolf, whom he married a year later and who worked for the company the rest of her life.
From The New Yorker ● Apr. 11, 2016
Guttman fell into the career by accident when he began an office boy at age 19 at Rogers & Cowan while attending UCLA.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 13, 2016
An office boy came along to direct me.
From "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison
