dockworker
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Synonyms
docker [chiefly British], dockhand, longshoreman, roustabout, rouster, stevedore
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The collection of business, government and nonprofit representatives have been brainstorming all kinds of ideas: safety pamphlets, digital informational signs, paddling ambassadors, even dockworkers to manage boats at the Flats East Bank. — Laura Johnston, cleveland.com, "First, we cleaned the river. Now we need to keep people safe," 20 June 2019 Competition for cargo may have brought unionized dockworkers and employers at U.S. East and Gulf coast ports back to the bargaining table. — Paul Page, WSJ, "Today’s Top Supply Chain and Logistics News From WSJ," 12 Mar. 2018 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. — Erica E. Phillips, WSJ, "ACLU Claims Port Union Discriminates Against Pregnant Dockworkers," 29 Mar. 2018 Among the men who didn’t recognize his promise was the poet’s own father, a former dockworker with a hard demeanor. — Benjamin Kunkel, The New Republic, "The partisan world of Pablo Neruda," 2 July 2018 The associations representing the shipping companies and dockworkers declined to comment. — CBS News, "Agency created to fight organized crime on New York, New Jersey docks may be pushed out," 22 June 2018 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. — Mark Fazlollah, Philly.com, "Police officer probed in theft of homes," 2 Dec. 2012 In the Mississippi Territory, produce rotted in barns; in New England, dockworkers and sailors sat idle. — Matt Ford, The New Republic, "When the President Defies the Supreme Court," 24 Apr. 2018 Williamson and several African-American dockworkers detained Wheeler while Still ushered Johnson and her children away to his home. — Brigit Katz, Smithsonian, "Underground Railroad Safe House Discovered in Philadelphia," 23 Mar. 2018These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'dockworker.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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