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Definition of Busboys
1. busboy [n] - See also: busboy
Lexicographical Neighbors of Busboys
Literary usage of Busboys
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Racial and Ethnic Tensions in American Communities: Poverty, Inequality, and edited by Mary F. Berry, Cruz Reynoso, Carl A. Anderson (1997)
"... as busboys, and are turned away by employers who tell them that they don't
want to hire blacks as busboys, that they have too many problems with them. ..."
2. Options to Improve and Expand Federal Prison Industries: Hearing Before the edited by William McCollum, Bill McCollum (1997)
"And a lot of the strikers were young kids, high school kids who worked as busboys
or room service waiters after school hours. And, 1 day some of them were ..."
3. Publication by National Child Labor Committee (U.S.), Cleveland Foundation Survey Committee, Emergency Conservation Committee (U.S.) (1916)
"In a large restaurant the supplies of butter and cracked ice are replenished by
boys who serve in the general capacity of "busboys. ..."
4. Training for Store Service: The Vocational Experiences and Training of by Lucile Eaves (1920)
"... in to relieve the strain of business from 11 to 3, or restaurant workers, like
busboys and waitresses, who are needed only while meals are being served. ..."
5. Department Store Occupations by Iris Prouty O'Leary (1916)
"In a large restaurant the supplies of butter and cracked ice are replenished by
boys who serve in the general capacity of "busboys." When this is the case, ..."
6. Home Cooking in the Global Village: Caribbean Food from Buccaneers to by Richard R. Wilk (2006)
"There are a huge number of jobs as waitresses, maids and busboys, but there are
also a lot of guides, dive masters, hotel managers and travel agents. ..."
7. Crucibles of Hazard: Mega-Cities and Disasters in Transition by James K. Mitchell (1999)
"Vietnamese, and Cambodian youth, as well as young Chinese from Pasadena “unwilling
to spend lifetimes as busboys and cooks.” 3. The total urban street and ..."
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