as in longshoreman
one who loads and unloads ships at a port the dockworkers spent all afternoon taking crates off of the ship

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Recent Examples of dockworker Labor unions have secured meaningful employer concessions in recent months following strikes by Boeing factory workers, dockworkers at East and Gulf coast ports, video game performers, and hotel and casino workers on the Las Vegas Strip. Mead Gruver, The Denver Post, 9 Jan. 2025 At the Port of Los Angeles, dockworkers moved 921,616 TEUs, up 24.1 percent from the prior December. Glenn Taylor, Sourcing Journal, 28 Jan. 2025 Recent months have seen labor unions win significant concessions from employers, following high-profile strikes by Boeing factory workers, dockworkers at East and Gulf Coast ports, video game performers, and hotel and casino employees on the Las Vegas Strip. Paul Du Quenoy, Newsweek, 10 Jan. 2025 It was packed with the lunch crowd, maybe a hundred dockworkers jostling over trays. EW.com, 14 Jan. 2025 See All Example Sentences for dockworker

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“Dockworker.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dockworker. Accessed 23 Apr. 2025.

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