dockworker

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From dock +‎ worker.

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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^[1], archived from the original on 1 May 2015:

     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^[2], archived from the original on 1 October 2024:

     The East Coast dockworkers understand what’s happening around the world.

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