seafarer
a sailor.
a traveler on the sea.
Origin of seafarer
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How to use seafarer in a sentence
During the pandemic, seafarers have become the world’s forgotten essential workers.
Seafarers from Covid-hit India are struggling to get on ships—and off them | Samanth Subramanian | June 16, 2021 | QuartzMaersk, Hanley said, has started paying its sailors bonuses to compensate them for remaining aboard ship at all times, even in ports that allow seafarers limited shore leave.
Essential, invisible: Covid has 200,000 merchant sailors stuck at sea | Taylor Telford, Jacob Bogage | April 9, 2021 | Washington PostThe United Nations called for the world’s governments to designate seafarers and other marine personnel as “key workers” during the pandemic.
Essential, invisible: Covid has 200,000 merchant sailors stuck at sea | Taylor Telford, Jacob Bogage | April 9, 2021 | Washington PostShe has picked up prescriptions for a seafarer who ran out of vital medication after his contract was extended.
Essential, invisible: Covid has 200,000 merchant sailors stuck at sea | Taylor Telford, Jacob Bogage | April 9, 2021 | Washington PostThough sectors as diverse as vehicle manufacture and agriculture are reliant on maritime trade, seafarers are too few — and distant — to garner much attention.
Essential, invisible: Covid has 200,000 merchant sailors stuck at sea | Taylor Telford, Jacob Bogage | April 9, 2021 | Washington Post
Who in Britain or Western Europe or America now knows a working seafarer?
How Does All Your Stuff Get to You? Inside the Shipping Industry | Rose George | August 17, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTThe most common seafarer you will see, should you look, will be Asian and exhausted.
How Does All Your Stuff Get to You? Inside the Shipping Industry | Rose George | August 17, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTYou could be a generalist—a poet/mollusk scientist/seafarer/surgeon.
From the most ancient times they have been the friends of the seafarer!
South America To-day | Georges ClemenceauHe found the man Rait, a big, clumsy seafarer, and questioned him.
Spies of the Kaiser | William Le QueuxThe morning was growing hot, and the good seafarer in the seat beside our friend seemed to grow very uncomfortable.
Betty Leicester | Sarah Orne JewettHe was the captain of Raleigh's flagship, the Destiny, an old seafarer, who in twenty years had lived a century of adventure.
The Path of the King | John BuchanNot only the terms of expression, but a distinct reference to a former voyage, indicated the writer to have been a seafarer.
The Boy Scouts Book of Stories | Various
British Dictionary definitions for seafarer
/ (ˈsiːˌfɛərə) /
a traveller who goes by sea
a less common word for sailor
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