as in longshoreman
one who loads and unloads ships at a port
the dockworkers spent all afternoon taking crates off of the ship
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Recent Examples of dockworker
Denmark’s Moller-Maersk fell 5.8% amid a wider sell-off in shipping stocks after a tentative labor deal was stuck by U.S. dockworkers.
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Yeo Boon Ping, CNBC, 10 Jan. 2025
Meanwhile, Trump has signaled support for dockworkers.
—Medora Lee, USA TODAY, 9 Jan. 2025
Read All About It Tens of thousands of dockworkers reached a tentative agreement on a six-year contract with the company representing 14 major ports from Boston to Miami and along the Gulf Coast, avoiding a looming strike.
—Elizabeth Robinson, NBC News, 9 Jan. 2025
Unions secured meaningful employer concessions in recent months following strikes by Boeing factory workers, dockworkers at East and Gulf coast ports, video game performers, and hotel and casino workers on the Las Vegas Strip.
—Mead Gruver, The Denver Post, 7 Jan. 2025
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Yeo Boon Ping, CNBC, 10 Jan. 2025
Meanwhile, Trump has signaled support for dockworkers.
—Medora Lee, USA TODAY, 9 Jan. 2025
Read All About It Tens of thousands of dockworkers reached a tentative agreement on a six-year contract with the company representing 14 major ports from Boston to Miami and along the Gulf Coast, avoiding a looming strike.
—Elizabeth Robinson, NBC News, 9 Jan. 2025
Unions secured meaningful employer concessions in recent months following strikes by Boeing factory workers, dockworkers at East and Gulf coast ports, video game performers, and hotel and casino workers on the Las Vegas Strip.
—Mead Gruver, The Denver Post, 7 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for dockworker
Noun
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The Hill has contacted a Trump transition spokeswoman to ask if the president-elect would consider invoking the Taft-Hartley Act if the longshoremen strike.—
Taylor Giorno,
The Hill,
8 Jan. 2025
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The drop off in activity means fewer jobs for longshoremen and truckers, and down the line, higher prices for consumers, the representatives said.—
Caroline Petrow-Cohen,
Los Angeles Times,
10 May 2025
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His father was a stevedore and his mother an autodidact who aspired to something better than the prefab house where her family lived.—
Molly Fischer,
New Yorker,
5 May 2025
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Docks depended on a circulating pool of male maritime workers—crews of seamen and stokers who manned the tramp steamers, gangs of longshoremen, and stevedores who loaded and unloaded goods, as well as artisans and machinists who maintained and repaired the ships and trains.—
Michael Denning,
Foreign Affairs,
21 Aug. 2015
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“Dockworker.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dockworker. Accessed 11 Jun. 2025.
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