dockworker
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Synonyms
docker [chiefly British], dockhand, longshoreman, roustabout, rouster, stevedore
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Unlucky Louie says if his ship ever comes in, the dockworkers will be on strike or the dock will have rotted. — Frank Stewart, The Mercury News, "Bridge: Aug. 28, 2019," 28 Aug. 2019 Still, after a decade of recession and pain, Piraeus’s dockworkers sense the chance for growth—or, at least, stability. — By Vivienne Walt, Fortune, "Boxed In at the Docks: How a Lifeline From China Changed Greece," 22 July 2019 Her four children were still asleep in her concrete block house in Abobo, a maze of shops and houses occupied by dockworkers, taxi drivers, factory laborers and street sellers. — Anemona Hartocollis, BostonGlobe.com, "Less waste and more schools, one plastic brick at a time," 27 July 2019 Her four children were still asleep in her cement block house in Abobo, a maze of shops and houses occupied by dockworkers, taxi drivers, factory laborers and street sellers. — Anemona Hartocollis, New York Times, "Less Trash, More Schools — One Plastic Brick at a Time," 27 July 2019 In June, thousands of dockworkers marched at the Port of Los Angeles against the coming introduction of robotic machines threatening their jobs. — Carl Benedikt Frey For Cnn Business Perspectives, CNN, "The robot revolution is here. Prepare for workers to revolt," 26 July 2019 The powerful dockworker unions, anxious at the prospect of foreign ownership, went on strike for six weeks. — By Vivienne Walt, Fortune, "Boxed In at the Docks: How a Lifeline From China Changed Greece," 22 July 2019 The company’s executives argue that, while Los Angeles dockworkers work 16 hours a day, the unmanned vehicles can operate 24 hours a day. — Dakota Smith, latimes.com, "City deals blow to automation plan at the Port of L.A. The robots could still be coming," 28 June 2019 The young volunteers were a cross section of the colony of Maryland: wealthy merchants’ sons, dockworkers, school kids and free and enslaved black youth. — Time, "The Maryland 400 Lost a Battle But Helped Win a War. On the 4th of July, We Should Remember Their Sacrifice," 4 July 2019These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'dockworker.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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