Definition of "shoeshiner" [shoeshiner]

• A person who shines shoes and other footwear, usually for a fee (noun)

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• "The shoeshiner may be the former sock maker after a painful transition, or it may be a different worker altogether."
• "You may be justifiably angry at being forced out of the noble profession of sock making and into the humiliation of shoeshining, or at being thrown out of work while that brute the shoeshiner who lives across the street makes a fortune."
• "Will that not create a new $50,000 job for a shoeshiner?"