as in stevedore
one who loads and unloads ships at a port
the longshoremen moved all of the fish into cold storage for shipment to the market
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Recent Examples of longshoreman
On Thursday, longshoremen worked in concert with sailors to haul tons of rice into a barge headed for Vietnam.
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Ishani Desai, Sacbee.com, 3 Aug. 2025
In the late Eighties, Mom and I moved with my stepfather, George, a longshoreman, to his apartment in Hell’s Kitchen, the west side of midtown Manhattan.
—John J. Lennon, Rolling Stone, 19 July 2025
In the administration's earliest days, the president sided with longshoremen against efforts to make union members redundant via automation.
—Dan Perry, MSNBC Newsweek, 17 June 2025
The Overtown native returned from Washington, D.C. in 2005 to care for her ailing father, Caesar Stewart, a longshoreman of 47 years.
—Milena Malaver, Miami Herald, 3 June 2025
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Ishani Desai, Sacbee.com, 3 Aug. 2025
In the late Eighties, Mom and I moved with my stepfather, George, a longshoreman, to his apartment in Hell’s Kitchen, the west side of midtown Manhattan.
—John J. Lennon, Rolling Stone, 19 July 2025
In the administration's earliest days, the president sided with longshoremen against efforts to make union members redundant via automation.
—Dan Perry, MSNBC Newsweek, 17 June 2025
The Overtown native returned from Washington, D.C. in 2005 to care for her ailing father, Caesar Stewart, a longshoreman of 47 years.
—Milena Malaver, Miami Herald, 3 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for longshoreman
Noun
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But then what’s with all the stevedores from central casting?—
Helen Shaw,
New Yorker,
14 Dec. 2025
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As part of these reforms, the Royal Navy impounded dozens of merchant vessels for allegedly evading customs duties, enraging merchants as well as mariners, shipwrights, stevedores, and others in port cities whose livelihoods depended on foreign commerce.—
Time,
Time,
9 Oct. 2025
Noun
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But the statement was not exclusively directed toward the government, but to the dockworkers’ unions as well.—
Glenn Taylor,
Sourcing Journal,
5 Feb. 2026
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In October 2024, nearly 50,000 longshoremen, or dockworkers, along the U.S. East Coast walked off the job in one of the largest strikes in modern labor history.—
Zack Kass,
Fortune,
23 Jan. 2026
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“Longshoreman.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/longshoreman. Accessed 13 Feb. 2026.
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