Definition of stevedore
: one who works at or is responsible for loading and unloading ships in port
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Examples of stevedore in a Sentence
on the wharves, stevedores were unloading cargo from the far corners of the world
Recent Examples of stevedore from the Web
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Crispus Attucks, a former slave, and stevedore of whose father was African and whose mother Native American.
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These days, those vacancies increasingly mean jobs for software professionals, not stevedores or steel workers, the working-class aristocracy that once reigned along the banks of the Ruhr.
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It was supposed to be a short visit with her father, Kweku, who was living in Rockville, Md., working as a stevedore.
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When Jackson was 6, her mother died, leaving her to be raised by her father, a preacher on Sundays who worked as a stevedore and a barber during the week.
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Nostalgia for the days when the waterfront of Hoboken, N.J., teemed with stevedores and tugboat crews is apparently a thing of the past.
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Jack Gray Transport operates a stevedore affiliate operation called Lakes & Rivers Logistics in Buffington Harbor on property owned by Carmeuse Lime & Stone.
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Five days earlier, stevedores in Brooklyn had finished loading her with a staggering 6 million pounds of high explosives, 13 times the weight of the Statue of Liberty.
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By extension, the book is teeming with those who earn their living on the water: sailors, stevedores, lobstermen, shipbuilders and that particular maritime specialist prized by the underworld, the boatman who sinks bodies to the bottom of the sea.
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Origin and Etymology of stevedore
stevedore Synonyms
Definition of stevedore
stevedored;
stevedoring
: to handle (cargo) as a stevedore;
also
: to load or unload the cargo of (a ship) in port
: to work as a stevedore
First Known Use of stevedore
1862
STEVEDORE Defined for English Language Learners
Definition of stevedore for English Language Learners
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: a person whose job is to load and unload ships at a port
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