as in longshoreman
one who loads and unloads ships at a port
the dockworkers spent all afternoon taking crates off of the ship
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Recent Examples of dockworker
Trump weighed in last month on the automation issue via his social media platform Truth Social after meeting with Daggett at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida, siding with dockworkers.
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Taylor Giorno, The Hill, 9 Jan. 2025
Anthony Kwan | Getty Images Shares of Denmark's Moller-Maersk fell 5.8% amid a wider sell-off in shipping stocks after a tentative labor deal was stuck by U.S. dockworkers, staving off a potential strike.
—Karen Gilchrist,sophie Kiderlin,holly Ellyatt, CNBC, 9 Jan. 2025
Another dockworker strike is looming, and negotiations on a new contract are set to begin next week.
—Chelsea Brasted, Axios, 3 Jan. 2025
The sluggish traffic at America’s largest gateways has dockworkers and truck drivers worried about their jobs, the reporter said.
—Kate Nishimura, Sourcing Journal, 8 May 2025
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Taylor Giorno, The Hill, 9 Jan. 2025
Anthony Kwan | Getty Images Shares of Denmark's Moller-Maersk fell 5.8% amid a wider sell-off in shipping stocks after a tentative labor deal was stuck by U.S. dockworkers, staving off a potential strike.
—Karen Gilchrist,sophie Kiderlin,holly Ellyatt, CNBC, 9 Jan. 2025
Another dockworker strike is looming, and negotiations on a new contract are set to begin next week.
—Chelsea Brasted, Axios, 3 Jan. 2025
The sluggish traffic at America’s largest gateways has dockworkers and truck drivers worried about their jobs, the reporter said.
—Kate Nishimura, Sourcing Journal, 8 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for dockworker
Noun
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If there are more longshoremen than job orders, a portion of them will go without pay.—
Glenn Taylor,
Sourcing Journal,
9 June 2025
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If there are more longshoremen than job orders, a portion of workers will go without pay.—
Caroline Petrow-Cohen,
Los Angeles Times,
7 June 2025
Noun
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His father was a stevedore and his mother an autodidact who aspired to something better than the prefab house where her family lived.—
Molly Fischer,
New Yorker,
5 May 2025
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Docks depended on a circulating pool of male maritime workers—crews of seamen and stokers who manned the tramp steamers, gangs of longshoremen, and stevedores who loaded and unloaded goods, as well as artisans and machinists who maintained and repaired the ships and trains.—
Michael Denning,
Foreign Affairs,
21 Aug. 2015
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“Dockworker.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dockworker. Accessed 5 Jul. 2025.
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