as in longshoreman
one who loads and unloads ships at a port on the wharves, stevedores were unloading cargo from the far corners of the world

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Recent Examples of stevedore What do port workers do? Longshoremen, also referred to as stevedores, handle cargo from incoming ships. Reuters, USA TODAY, 30 Sep. 2024 In a nightmare version of the Gilded Age, bankers and stevedores alike attend vaudevilles, swig opium, and sign contracts with Mephistopheles. The New Yorker, 2 Aug. 2024 The sailors had received little training as stevedores but were forced to load munitions — a dangerous task — as White officers made bets on which units would move the fastest. Emily Langer, Washington Post, 26 July 2024 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 See All Example Sentences for stevedore
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Noun
  • In the late Eighties, Mom and I moved with my stepfather, George, a longshoreman, to his apartment in Hell’s Kitchen, the west side of midtown Manhattan.
    John J. Lennon, Rolling Stone, 19 July 2025
  • Finish the night at Sunny’s Bar, a neighborhood institution that first served longshoremen more than 100 years ago.
    Ellen Carpenter, AFAR Media, 17 July 2025
Noun
  • Even dockworkers at the Port of Baltimore filed litigation.
    Glenn Taylor, Sourcing Journal, 6 Aug. 2025
  • 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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“Stevedore.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/stevedore. Accessed 10 Sep. 2025.

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