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
Heroic lead character and longshoreman Terry Malloy stands up to rackets boss Johnny Friendly, gets beaten bloody, and in the final reel leads his fellow longshoremen back into the brutal purgatory of the big city docks.
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Jeffrey Steele, Forbes, 21 Feb. 2025
Dockworkers and longshoremen struck a tentative deal Wednesday night to avoid a damaging strike ahead of a looming January deadline.
—Sophia Vento, The Hill, 9 Jan. 2025
Port strike has thousands of dockworkers on the picket lines 02:52
A more typical longshoreman's salary can exceed $100,000, but not without logging substantial overtime hours.
—Megan Cerullo, CBS News, 1 Oct. 2024
Thousands of longshoremen and dockworkers along the Eastern seaboard of the United States and the Gulf Coast walked off the job on Tuesday after the International Longshoremen's Association failed to reach contract agreements with the United States Maritime Alliance, which represents the ports.
—Jack Kelly, Forbes, 3 Oct. 2024
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Jeffrey Steele, Forbes, 21 Feb. 2025
Dockworkers and longshoremen struck a tentative deal Wednesday night to avoid a damaging strike ahead of a looming January deadline.
—Sophia Vento, The Hill, 9 Jan. 2025
Port strike has thousands of dockworkers on the picket lines 02:52
A more typical longshoreman's salary can exceed $100,000, but not without logging substantial overtime hours.
—Megan Cerullo, CBS News, 1 Oct. 2024
Thousands of longshoremen and dockworkers along the Eastern seaboard of the United States and the Gulf Coast walked off the job on Tuesday after the International Longshoremen's Association failed to reach contract agreements with the United States Maritime Alliance, which represents the ports.
—Jack Kelly, Forbes, 3 Oct. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for longshoreman
Noun
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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
Noun
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As cargo entering major U.S. West Coast ports starts to slow down amid a deceleration in Chinese imports, the union representing dockworkers across the ocean freight hubs has made its opinion clear on where is stands on President Donald Trump’s tariffs.—
Glenn Taylor,
Sourcing Journal,
29 Apr. 2025
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That is comparable to the pay for dockworkers on the West Coast, represented by the International Longshore and Warehouse Union, whose wages will rise to nearly $61 in 2027.—
Peter Eavis,
New York Times,
26 Feb. 2025
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“Longshoreman.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/longshoreman. Accessed 29 May. 2025.
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