Definition of STEVEDORE

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

Recent Examples on the Web: Noun Normandy’s Negroes, serving in mostly segregated units, worked under fire instead as stevedores and as antiaircraft men who ran up barrage balloons to frustrate enemy air strikes at the beaches. — Olivia B. Waxman, Time, "What’s the Most Accurate D-Day Movie? Here’s What 3 Movies Got Right—and Wrong," 5 June 2019 In Panama City, Josh West, a 39-year-old stevedore, rode out the hurricane at his home with his roommate and daughter. — Jon Kamp And Arian Campo-flores, WSJ, "Michael Blasts Deadly Path Across Several Southern States," 11 Oct. 2018 Crispus Attucks, a former slave, and stevedore of whose father was African and whose mother Native American. — Byron Mccauley, Cincinnati.com, "Black History Month from the perspective of a German-Irish dad raising African-American kids," 20 Feb. 2018 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. — Bloomberg.com, "Merkel’s Fourth Term Now Rides on Germany’s Changing Rust Belt," 8 Feb. 2018 It was supposed to be a short visit with her father, Kweku, who was living in Rockville, Md., working as a stevedore. — Richard Demak, SI.com, "What to Watch: TV Times For the 2018 Winter Olympics Schedule Highlights," 6 Feb. 2018 Jack Gray Transport operates a stevedore affiliate operation called Lakes & Rivers Logistics in Buffington Harbor on property owned by Carmeuse Lime & Stone. — Carole Carlson, Post-Tribune, "Gary trucking firm unveils clean diesel trucks," 29 Jan. 2018 The gist of the muckraking editorial was that Teddy was a drunk who also swore like a stevedore. — Mark Will-weber, Town & Country, "A Complete History of the Mint Julep," 10 Apr. 2017 Normandy’s Negroes, serving in mostly segregated units, worked under fire instead as stevedores and as antiaircraft men who ran up barrage balloons to frustrate enemy air strikes at the beaches. — Olivia B. Waxman, Time, "What’s the Most Accurate D-Day Movie? Here’s What 3 Movies Got Right—and Wrong," 5 June 2019

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“Stevedore.” The Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster Inc., https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/stevedore. Accessed 11 December 2019.