Dockworker

/dˈɒkwɜːkə/

/ˈdɑˌkwɝkɝ/

[noun]

Dockworker

[NOUN]

a laborer who loads and unloads vessels in a port

synonyms : dock worker

Examples

1. Once dockworkers unload the container, a fleet of eighteen-wheelers transport the coffee to a nearby warehouse, and then to a roastery.

2. The dockworkers are sceptical.

3. So we must only visit pirate-friendly ports, with pirate-friendly dockworkers, mostly far away in the New World.

4. In Poland, the Gdansk dockworker’s union Solidarity turned into a mass political movement and won 99 of the 100 seats it was allowed to contest in the 1989 election.

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