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riggers

  • plural
    of rigger.
    rigger
    noun
    a person who rigs.

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Workers taking action include electrical, production and mechanical technicians in addition to deck crew, scaffolders crane operators, pipefitters, platers and riggers.

From BBC Apr. 7, 2023

He writes about drone operators, prison guards, poultry plant workers, and oil riggers.

From Salon Sep. 6, 2021

A lot of places we have to have riggers help us.

From Seattle Times Aug. 7, 2021

“These people were quitting Harvard to their families’ mortification, to go sail around the world on the last of the large square riggers here in Southern California.”

From Los Angeles Times Jan. 15, 2021

Stevedores and riggers by the hundreds strained against winches and loaded crates of rations and ammunition into the holds of the warships snugged into their berths.

From "Hidden Figures" by Margot Lee Shetterly

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