docker
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4.3
- noun
- /ˈdɑːkər/
- UK
:
estibador
- The dockers diligently loaded containers onto the ship at the bustling port.
So suddenly soccer moms and dads and dockers show up to like, you know, take a peek at what's going on.
- So suddenly soccer moms and dads and dockers show up to like, you know, take a peek at what's going on.
Examples
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More and more thoughtful eyes swiveled to the rickety stand, the tall "crow's nest," from which the dockers observed the action.
Fiction book (2000) -
The dockers went on strike yesterday.
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That is, the first people to fall I'll tended to be dockers or post office workers, railway men, policemen.
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So suddenly soccer moms and dads and dockers show up to like, you know, take a peek at what's going on.
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They had him dressed up like a college student: dockers, ivy league shirt, wire-rim glasses, and new sneakers.
Fiction book (2000) -
On account of a strike of Liverpool seamen and dockers, they, like the Van den Berghs, were detained in a shabby hostel.
Academic text (1993) -
The ITF had its origins in solidarity actions linking Dutch and British dockers and seafarers at the end of the nineteenth century, and remained close to the traditions of the old socialist Second International for much of its history.
Academic text (2002) -
To the dockers and sailors, his ancestry, his learning, and his position as a Hasidic rabbi meant nothing; he was a poor, scared Jewish scholar who had bought passage from Odessa to Constantinople.
Fiction book (1993) -
The clientele of that particular bar were no angels themselves, and dockers, fishermen, and wharf rats began to pile into the mad gwailo with boots, fists, and one or two knives.
Fiction book (1994) -
After finishing their shift, the dockers gathered at the local café to relax and discuss their day.
Synonyms
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8.1
A person who loads and unloads goods from ships at a port
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4.2
A person who loads and unloads goods from ships at a port
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9.9
A person who loads and unloads ships at a port
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2.1
A person who loads and unloads ships at a dock
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3.2
A person who moves goods onto and off ships at a port
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6.7
A person who loads and unloads ships at a dock
A worker who loads and unloads goods from ships at a port
A worker who loads and unloads ships at a port
A woman who loads and unloads goods from ships at a port
A person who works at a wharf or dock loading and unloading ships
A worker who loads and unloads goods at a port or warehouse
A person or machine that takes boxes off a truck
How Formal
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Docker comes from the word dock ('a place at a harbor where ships are loaded and unloaded') and the ending -er that means a person. So a docker is someone who works at the dock, loading and unloading cargo.