dockworker
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4.2
- noun
- /ˈdɑkˌwɜrkər/
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estibador
- With strong muscles and years of experience, the dockworker unloaded the heavy containers from the freighter.
Examples
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Stoker looked at the broad-shouldered man who appeared more like a dockworker than a chef.
Fiction book (2002) -
The dockworker skillfully loaded the crates onto the ship as the sun rose over the harbor.
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I'll get you down in Long Beach as a dockworker.
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"Your father is not going to look upon a dockworker as the ideal beau for his only daughter."
Fiction book (1990) -
I'm looking for a dockworker named Etchison.
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Some of the dockworker types were evidently heading off for evening shifts.
Fiction book (1996) -
A bevy of dockworkers moved in quickly and made her fast in record time.
Fiction book (1991) -
In the early decades of the 20th century, corporations that employed dockworkers, miners, and railroad workers began to offer insurance on a prepaid basis.
Academic text (2009) -
Most of the boxes were squashed, and some of them had split at the seams as they were tossed between the teamsters, the dockworkers, and the restless sea.
Blog text (20) -
Understandably, waterfront work has become the most coveted source of employment in the Stann Creek district, as attested by long waiting lists of applicants to fill the positions of retiring dockworkers.
Academic text (1990)
Synonyms
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8.1
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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4.3
A person who loads and unloads 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 person who works at a wharf or dock loading and unloading ships
A woman who loads and unloads goods from ships at a port
A worker who loads and unloads goods at a port or warehouse
A worker who lifts and moves heavy goods at a port
A person who loads and unloads ships using a flat boat
How Skilled
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word dockworker is made of dock, which means 'a place where ships are tied up', and worker, which means 'a person who works'. So, it simply means someone who loads and unloads ships at the dock or port.