dockworker

[ dok-wur-ker ]

noun

1. a person employed on the docks dock of a port, as in loading and unloading vessels.

Word History and Origins

Origin of dockworker¹

First recorded in 1920–25; dock ¹ + worker

Example Sentences

Dockworkers will unload ships that have been waiting outside ports for weeks.

From Quartz

General strikes led by dockworkers in San Francisco, truckers in Minneapolis and textile workers in the Piedmont South were taking place as he wrote.

From Washington Post

More information sharing — including over a longer time period — would allow carriers, terminals, truckers and dockworkers to better position equipment and people.

From Washington Post

Lichtenstein, the labor historian, points to the International Longshore and Warehouse Union, a powerful West Coast waterfront union that inked an agreement with shippers in 1958 to get dockworkers a slice of the gains from automation.

From MIT Technology Review

When she was young, her communist parents brought her along as they tried to persuade dockworkers to unionize, filling her stroller with leaflets.

From Washington Post