dockworker

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Etymology

From dock +‎ worker.

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Noun

dockworker (plural dockworkers)

  1. A person who works on the dock of a harbor or shipyard, usually employed to load or unload freight.
    Synonyms: docker; stevedore (UK), longshoreman (US), wharfie (ANZ)
    Hypernyms: tradesperson (usually, in modern practice), laborer (historically); < worker, < person
    Hyponyms: dockman, wharfman; wharf rat
    Coordinate terms: dockmaster, wharfmaster; fieldworker, factoryworker, mineworker
    • 2009 August 13, N. R. Kleinfield, “Dockworkers See Shoe on Other Foot After a Scandal”, in The New York Times‎:
      Red Hook is fabled dockworker territory, not necessarily for inspirational reasons. The mob violence and union corruption that long defined the piers were part of the underpinnings of the classic 1954 movie “On the Waterfront.”
    • 2024 October 1, Heather Long, “The real reason 47,000 dockworkers are on strike”, in The Washington Post‎:
      The East Coast dockworkers understand what’s happening around the world.

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