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
The Overtown native returned from Washington, D.C. in 2005 to care for her ailing father, Caesar Stewart, a longshoreman of 47 years.
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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
The Anderson Economic Group calculated a one-week strike would cost longshoreman and the United States Maritime Alliance $2.1 billion.
—Jason Ma, Fortune, 1 Oct. 2024
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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
The Anderson Economic Group calculated a one-week strike would cost longshoreman and the United States Maritime Alliance $2.1 billion.
—Jason Ma, Fortune, 1 Oct. 2024
See All Example Sentences for longshoreman
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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Even dockworkers at the Port of Baltimore filed litigation.—
Glenn Taylor,
Sourcing Journal,
6 Aug. 2025
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His father was a dockworker, his mother a waitress whose cooking Welsh once compared to waterboarding.—
Sam Davies,
Rolling Stone,
30 July 2025
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“Longshoreman.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/longshoreman. Accessed 11 Sep. 2025.
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