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
If there are more longshoremen than job orders, a portion of workers will go without pay.
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Caroline Petrow-Cohen, Los Angeles Times, 7 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
Bridges traveled the West Coast coordinating a strike of all longshoremen and warehousemen.
—Rebecca Brenner Graham / Made By History, TIME, 4 Mar. 2025
The restaurant started in 1904 by serving lunches to the longshoremen who worked the Brooklyn docks.
—Florence Fabricant, New York Times, 25 Feb. 2025
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Caroline Petrow-Cohen, Los Angeles Times, 7 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
Bridges traveled the West Coast coordinating a strike of all longshoremen and warehousemen.
—Rebecca Brenner Graham / Made By History, TIME, 4 Mar. 2025
The restaurant started in 1904 by serving lunches to the longshoremen who worked the Brooklyn docks.
—Florence Fabricant, New York Times, 25 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for longshoreman
Noun
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The jobs reflected in the survey include dockworkers, stevedores, truck drivers, financing and administrative positions.—
Tom Hudson,
Sun Sentinel,
10 July 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
Noun
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However, cargo operations were temporarily suspended at Pier G while responders worked to ensure the safety of dockworkers and other port personnel.—
Doc Louallen,
ABC News,
9 Sep. 2025
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Automation had been a central point of contention in the two-year contract negotiations between the East and Gulf Coast port dockworkers’ union and the United States Maritime Alliance (USMX).—
Glenn Taylor,
Sourcing Journal,
5 Sep. 2025
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“Longshoreman.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/longshoreman. Accessed 18 Sep. 2025.
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