loggers

Definition of loggersnext
plural of logger
as in lumbermen
a person whose job is to cut down trees the loggers were obliged to plant as many trees as they cut down

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Recent Examples of loggers By the early 20th century, after several centuries of rape, disease, enslavement, and land confiscation by colonizers, rubber barons, and loggers, their numbers had been reduced to 300. Stanley Stewart, Travel + Leisure, 10 Jan. 2026 Just helping the land out, helping the loggers. Austen Erblat, CBS News, 20 Dec. 2025 In a town of loggers, hippies, and students, Denise’s father was a doctor. Rachel Kushner, New Yorker, 14 Sep. 2025 During the 1970s, rural villagers in India, particularly women, responded to the invasion of loggers by embracing trees under threat, in what became known as the Chipko movement. Ellen Walker, JSTOR Daily, 3 Sep. 2025 An outbreak of pine beetles and 2024's Hurricane Helene helped contribute to a glut of pulpwood in the market, however, which drove down the value of that wood and made loggers even less interested in investing resources on a small lot like Blair's. Andrea Riquier, USA Today, 8 Aug. 2025
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Noun
  • Where once these trees stood in the island of Negros, sugarcane now dominates, all benefiting the hacenderos who welcomed the American lumbermen to clear the forests for later agricultural conversion.
    JSTOR Daily, JSTOR Daily, 19 Nov. 2025
Noun
  • The company was created to provide durable and functional garments for hunters, lumberjacks and railway workers.
    Luisa Zargani, Footwear News, 12 Nov. 2025
  • Sangliers are early risers, tasked with following lumberjacks from forest to forest in pursuit of felled trees destined for sawmills.
    Emily Monaco With Kat Craddock, Saveur, 9 Oct. 2025

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“Loggers.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/loggers. Accessed 18 Jan. 2026.

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