as in janitors
a person who tends a door
he generously tipped the porter for hailing a taxi
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Recent Examples of porters
The five who trekked back to base camp were Nepali porters and guides, Mahato said.
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Helen Regan, CNN Money, 3 Nov. 2025
In service jobs, Black workers labored as porters, chauffeurs, and servers; in manufacturing plants, white supremacist pseudoscience was harnessed to justify forcing Black workers to perform the most difficult and dangerous work.
—Literary Hub, 20 Oct. 2025
The dynamic confined many elite Sherpas to working as porters, kitchen boys and high-altitude helpers.
—Bhadra Sharma, Outside, 17 Oct. 2025
The shelters were once primarily used for summer hiking trips, when porters stocked them with food, drinks, and supplies.
—Scott Yorko, Travel + Leisure, 4 Oct. 2025
Of those who stay, more than eighty per cent work in the informal sector—as domestic servants, street hawkers, porters, cleaners.
—Kapil Komireddi, New Yorker, 22 Sep. 2025
Before beginning the ascent, Wyatt and Hofland met about a dozen hikers at the base of the mountain, as well as a dozen more guides or porters.
—Barbie Porter, Twin Cities, 18 Sep. 2025
This is a black IPA, relying heavily on the roasted malts more typically used in porters and stouts.
—Brad Japhe, Forbes.com, 7 Sep. 2025
Best known as Travelers Rest’s first craft brewery, this spot is a local favorite popular for its world-class selection of beers, with everything from pale ales to porters.
—Symiah Dorsey, Southern Living, 17 Aug. 2025
Helen Regan, CNN Money, 3 Nov. 2025
In service jobs, Black workers labored as porters, chauffeurs, and servers; in manufacturing plants, white supremacist pseudoscience was harnessed to justify forcing Black workers to perform the most difficult and dangerous work.
—Literary Hub, 20 Oct. 2025
The dynamic confined many elite Sherpas to working as porters, kitchen boys and high-altitude helpers.
—Bhadra Sharma, Outside, 17 Oct. 2025
The shelters were once primarily used for summer hiking trips, when porters stocked them with food, drinks, and supplies.
—Scott Yorko, Travel + Leisure, 4 Oct. 2025
Of those who stay, more than eighty per cent work in the informal sector—as domestic servants, street hawkers, porters, cleaners.
—Kapil Komireddi, New Yorker, 22 Sep. 2025
Before beginning the ascent, Wyatt and Hofland met about a dozen hikers at the base of the mountain, as well as a dozen more guides or porters.
—Barbie Porter, Twin Cities, 18 Sep. 2025
This is a black IPA, relying heavily on the roasted malts more typically used in porters and stouts.
—Brad Japhe, Forbes.com, 7 Sep. 2025
Best known as Travelers Rest’s first craft brewery, this spot is a local favorite popular for its world-class selection of beers, with everything from pale ales to porters.
—Symiah Dorsey, Southern Living, 17 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for porters
janitors
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Qing Yuan had seen many of these tiny corpses, pinkish, yellowish, tin-gray, curled up, always seemingly asleep, tossed by janitors into fires outside the building.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
23 Oct. 2025
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Low-wage service workers, including cleaners, janitors, security guards, cafeteria workers and other staffers who keep buildings operating, are often out of luck.—
Matt Egan,
CNN Money,
7 Oct. 2025
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“Porters.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/porters. Accessed 4 Nov. 2025.
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