stevedore

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noun

ste·ve·dore ˈstē-və-ˌdȯr

also ˈstēv-ˌdȯr

Synonyms of stevedore next

: one who works at or is responsible for loading and unloading ships in port

stevedore

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verb

stevedored; stevedoring

transitive verb

: to handle (cargo) as a stevedore

also : to load or unload the cargo of (a ship) in port

intransitive verb

: to work as a stevedore

Examples of stevedore in a Sentence

Noun on the wharves, stevedores were unloading cargo from the far corners of the world

Recent Examples on the Web

Noun

The fire began on the ship’s 10th deck as crew members and local stevedores were loading vehicles, according to Grimaldi. —

Elise Young, New York Times, 6 July 2023 An unemployed former stevedore, Kenneth Humphrey, had followed an elderly man into his apartment and stolen $7 in cash and a bottle of cologne. —

Jesse Barron, New York Times, 21 Nov. 2022 More like San Pedro, with a working man, a stevedore — Boston College guard Zion Johnson. —

Nick Canepacolumnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 Apr. 2022 By his twentieth birthday, having discovered that he wasn’t cut out for the back-breaking life of a longshoreman or stevedore, P.J. tried his hand as a brass finisher at an East Boston machine shop. —

Neal Thompson, Town & Country, 22 Feb. 2022 Drafted into the Army in 1943 at age 19, he was deployed to Europe as a stevedore in an all-Black unit. —

Washington Post, 9 Feb. 2022 Bearing a scythe, a hoe, and a stevedore’s hook, the women appear ready for action. —

Steven Litt, cleveland, 17 Oct. 2021 Stevedores board ships to operate the cranes mounted on deck, and the rotor sails seemed to be partially blocking this stevedore’s line of sight. —

New York Times, 24 June 2021 Weeksville is an extraordinary museum in central Brooklyn dedicated to the history of the free Black community that was founded there in 1838, when a Black stevedore named James Weeks first purchased the property. —

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