stevedore
noun
a firm or individual engaged in the loading or unloading of a vessel.
stevedores
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present tense formof stevedore (3rd person singular).present tense
Used to describe things happening now or regularly.
Example Sentences
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In time, entrepreneurs set up bigger tents, brought in pianos for merry-making and “good, clean, cheap fun, even on Saturday nights, when the stevedores, oil drillers, and sailors wandered in from Santa Monica …”
From Los Angeles Times ● May 17, 2022
Where those dollars go: The cruise economy web extends further than you might think — restaurateurs, stevedores, shuttle drivers, private security firms, farmers who sell vast quantities of produce to provision ships, etc.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 17, 2021
Director-choreographer Drew McOnie’s staging tends to clutter the production numbers—too many seamen and stevedores turning too many Newsies moves—and the unimaginative theater-rock songs tend to be titled for the plot points they dramatize.
From Slate ● Nov. 8, 2018
Liverpool docks were once filled with the sound of horses' hooves, the commotion of emigrants leaving for a new life and the din of stevedores loading heavy goods on to vessels bound for the Atlantic.
From BBC ● Nov. 24, 2015
On her hands and knees, Sefia peered around the corner, her quick eyes picking out stevedores milling about on the decks and gangways.
From "The Reader" by Traci Chee
