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
People jostled across the steps as porters maneuvered carts and tourists paused for photos.
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Vic O'Sullivan, Travel + Leisure, 4 Mar. 2026
Fierce sunlight bleaching the stones of the old city, blinding the passengers as porters in white kaffiyehs and djellabas stack their portmanteaus on donkey carts.
—Literary Hub, 16 Feb. 2026
Brave Pullman porters carried the Chicago Defender with coverage of the funeral on trains headed south from Chicago, sparking outrage and igniting a movement.
—Chris Jones, Chicago Tribune, 12 Feb. 2026
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, 4 Jan. 2026
Meanwhile, the porters, who'd carried all of the 60 Minutes gear up the mountain, had already made it to Base Camp and were headed back down, on to their next job.
—Cecilia Vega, CBS News, 22 Dec. 2025
Themes span workplace automation (delivery bots threaten to put human porters like Sam out of work), pollution (prolonged exposure to a mysterious substance called chiralium causes various health problems) and climate change (storms and floods are increasingly common in this future world).
—Will Ripley, CNN Money, 12 Dec. 2025
The difficulty of these operations was highlighted again on October 31, when a trio of British and Irish tourists, along with a dozen Nepalese porters and guides, were rescued from Nepal’s Hidden Valley after spending three days stranded in subfreezing temperatures.
—Owen Clarke, Outside, 31 Oct. 2025
Vic O'Sullivan, Travel + Leisure, 4 Mar. 2026
Fierce sunlight bleaching the stones of the old city, blinding the passengers as porters in white kaffiyehs and djellabas stack their portmanteaus on donkey carts.
—Literary Hub, 16 Feb. 2026
Brave Pullman porters carried the Chicago Defender with coverage of the funeral on trains headed south from Chicago, sparking outrage and igniting a movement.
—Chris Jones, Chicago Tribune, 12 Feb. 2026
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, 4 Jan. 2026
Meanwhile, the porters, who'd carried all of the 60 Minutes gear up the mountain, had already made it to Base Camp and were headed back down, on to their next job.
—Cecilia Vega, CBS News, 22 Dec. 2025
Themes span workplace automation (delivery bots threaten to put human porters like Sam out of work), pollution (prolonged exposure to a mysterious substance called chiralium causes various health problems) and climate change (storms and floods are increasingly common in this future world).
—Will Ripley, CNN Money, 12 Dec. 2025
The difficulty of these operations was highlighted again on October 31, when a trio of British and Irish tourists, along with a dozen Nepalese porters and guides, were rescued from Nepal’s Hidden Valley after spending three days stranded in subfreezing temperatures.
—Owen Clarke, Outside, 31 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for porters
janitors
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Occupations such as construction laborers, janitors, electricians, barbers, and bartenders, may largely be in the clear, whereas accountants, office clerks, customer service reps, and software developers could be the hardest hit.—
Victor Tangermann,
Futurism,
18 Mar. 2026
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The documents also detail the scale of the personnel required to build and manage the temporary lock-up, from janitors to laundry workers to cooks, translators to legal case managers to IT staff.—
Kate Payne,
Sun Sentinel,
2 Mar. 2026
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“Porters.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/porters. Accessed 22 Mar. 2026.
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