as in stevedore
one who loads and unloads ships at a port
sought work as a roustabout on the city's seedy waterfront
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His young mother, Beatrice, had married an engineer and roustabout named Horace Seidner who turned out not to be the family type.
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Penelope Green, New York Times, 13 Oct. 2022
Cox would work his way up from a roustabout and roughneck to eventually leading an oil and gas company as well as other notable businesses.
—Dallas News, 7 Nov. 2020
The shale patch was the Wild West reborn, featuring poker games with $1000 buy-ins, boisterous strip clubs packed with roustabouts and brawling in the muddy streets illuminated by columns of flaring gas.
—Shawn Tully, Fortune, 30 Apr. 2020
The Showmen's League Of America commemorates the 1918 Hagenbeck-Wallace Circus train disaster which killed 86 circus performers and roustabouts and injured 127, at Showman's Rest in Wood Lawn Cemetery in Forest Park, Ill., on Thursday, May 5, 2018.
—Dawn Mitchell, Indianapolis Star, 20 Feb. 2020
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Penelope Green, New York Times, 13 Oct. 2022
Cox would work his way up from a roustabout and roughneck to eventually leading an oil and gas company as well as other notable businesses.
—Dallas News, 7 Nov. 2020
The shale patch was the Wild West reborn, featuring poker games with $1000 buy-ins, boisterous strip clubs packed with roustabouts and brawling in the muddy streets illuminated by columns of flaring gas.
—Shawn Tully, Fortune, 30 Apr. 2020
The Showmen's League Of America commemorates the 1918 Hagenbeck-Wallace Circus train disaster which killed 86 circus performers and roustabouts and injured 127, at Showman's Rest in Wood Lawn Cemetery in Forest Park, Ill., on Thursday, May 5, 2018.
—Dawn Mitchell, Indianapolis Star, 20 Feb. 2020
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Noun
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America dodged a sledgehammer on Thursday night, when striking stevedores reached a tentative agreement to return to work.Dan Primack, Axios, 4 Oct. 2024
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What do port workers do? Longshoremen, also referred to as stevedores, handle cargo from incoming ships.Reuters, USA TODAY, 30 Sep. 2024
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Salary would not be suspended for longshoremen in the bulk sector and essential services.Glenn Taylor, Sourcing Journal, 4 Nov. 2024
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Corporations were making record profits, but the longshoremen weren’t getting any changes in salary and hadn’t in years.Joe Hudicka, Forbes, 31 Oct. 2024
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These operations provide tens of thousands of jobs to dockworkers, truck drivers and other laborers who help move this cargo.Tony Briscoe, Los Angeles Times, 29 Oct. 2024
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Read on to learn about what dockworkers do and how new technologies are changing the job.Megan Cerullo, CBS News, 7 Oct. 2024
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“Roustabout.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/roustabout. Accessed 17 Nov. 2024.
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