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Examples of dockworker in a Sentence
the dockworkers spent all afternoon taking crates off of the ship
Recent Examples of dockworker from the Web
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Competition for cargo may have brought unionized dockworkers and employers at U.S. East and Gulf coast ports back to the bargaining table.
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The American Civil Liberties Union claims in a complaint filed Thursday that the West Coast dockworkers union and the region’s main port employers group discriminate against pregnant longshore workers at 29 Pacific Coast seaports.
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Among the men who didn’t recognize his promise was the poet’s own father, a former dockworker with a hard demeanor.
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The associations representing the shipping companies and dockworkers declined to comment.
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Washington came to Philadelphia from Alabama in 1951, landed a job as a dockworker, and for 42 years was a member of the International Longshoremen’s Association.
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In the Mississippi Territory, produce rotted in barns; in New England, dockworkers and sailors sat idle.
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Williamson and several African-American dockworkers detained Wheeler while Still ushered Johnson and her children away to his home.
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Port facilities in Galveston, Corpus Christi, and elsewhere along the coast were also closed, and dockworkers were working to ensure loose cargo and equipment were secure.
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First Known Use of dockworker
1913
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Definition of dockworker for English Language Learners
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: a person who loads and unloads ships at a port
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